Quotes About Humanity

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Mithorden: I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it's the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion's share of life's provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.

If our Fall was our re-cognition, our re-knowing of the good as evil, then our Reconciliation is our re-cognition in Christ - our re-knowing in the risen humanity of the Word - of evil as the good he has made it once more.

it is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God.

God in Jesus didn't prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left.

Because the creative Word is the eternal contemporary of every moment of the world's existence, the kingdom is catholic in time as well as space. The Word who restores humanity to its status as a kingdom of priests is the same Word who made Adam a priestly king to begin with.

All we have is our humanity and affinities, and the hope that these may be enough in this world ["Saving the Whales"].

8.000 soldados iraquíes habían sido enterrados vivos en sus trincheras por las excavadoras y arados montados sobre los tanques de la división de infantería motorizada estadounidense,6 el breve momento de compasión que esto generó seguramente tuvo más que ver con la conciencia culpable por la pasividad occidental para con los insurgentes iraquíes que con la enorme pérdida de vidas humanas que representaba.

Los mismos hombres de los que se sospecha que han cometido crímenes contra la humanidad estaban trabajando con los estadounidenses para dar caza a los culpables de crímenes contra la humanidad. Esta colaboración militar, según declaró el Pentágono, era parte de «la guerra contra el terror».

En los meses que siguieron, entrevistaría a todos los supervivientes, todos los testigos —soldados de las Naciones Unidas y civiles libaneses— y a los fabricantes de armas estadounidenses involucrados en ese espantoso asunto, que sigo considerando como un crimen contra la humanidad.

Once you start fighting in a war, of course, you are immediately complicit in a form of mass murder.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

Armin Wegner, un enfermero alemán y alférez en el séquito del mariscal de campo Von der Goltz, desobedeció las órdenes y tomó centenares de fotografías de las víctimas armenias en los campos de Ras al Ain, Rakka, Alepo y Deir ez Zor. Hoy esas desgarradoras fotografías de muertos y moribundos constituyen el núcleo de los testimonios fotográficos.

Cada guerra que ha estallado a partir de 1945 ha dado pie a una gran cantidad de legislación y a la creación de más grupos de derechos humanos para presionar al mundo sobre valores occidentales humanísticos

Because humanity is part of nature, it should be no surprise that people act consistently with natural law. But for most of us, this is a new idea. In our culture we have been taught to ignore our relationship to nature, to treat nature simply as the stage or background that we use, adopt, tolerate, or oppose, as the case may be.

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.