Quotes About Humanity

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

The idea of giving your talent for free in order to save lives seemed like the most sensible thing anyone's ever suggested.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

Every time I travel, I'm in a rage until I reach my destination. I find myself shouting at suitcases, as if it's their fault that I'm an inefficient packer. I've also learnt that whenever you despair of humanity and start thinking that you hate people - as I frequently do - you only have to travel to realise that people are basically all right.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.