Quotes About Humanity

To me, the best zombie movies aren't the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society's station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there's always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's the living.

Heavy-Egg enjoyed work, and often wondered what it would feel like to be a human and have to spend a third of your life unconscious. He had heard that humans would fall asleep even when their lives were in danger.

Robert L. Heilbroner

People matter more than things.

Whereas every other religion of the world represents men as seeking after their gods, Christianity represents God as seeking after men.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Monster cloud rising over Hiroshima, over the world — monstrous, mushrooming thing, sign of our age, symbol of our sin: growth, bigness, speed: grow, grow, grow — grow in a cancer, enlarge a factory, swell a city, balloon our bellies, speed life, fly to the moon, burst a bomb, shatter a people — explode the world.

No woman or child was ever to be molested or carried away as captive, and all the spoil or plunder of war was to be equally divided.

Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! —Lord Byron, Don Juan

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am…if I am.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

More than anything, the Nazis robbed families: of their livelihoods, their opportunities, their heirlooms, their mementos, of the things that identified them and defined them as human beings.

fifty million loved ones who never returned home from the war to rejoin their families or start one of their own; brilliant, creative contributions never made to our world because scientists, artists, and inventors lost their lives too early or were never born; cultures built over generations reduced to ashes

don't believe I've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need of man's spirit; or that we can never look for a healthy social body until that need, among others, is fed.

one human being judged groups of other human beings less worthy than his own. The

One way of emphasizing the singularity of the recent past is [..] to observe that the total number of humans ever to have lived is estimated at around (a bit less than) 100 billion. One of Walt Whitman's poems has a memorable image—thinking of all past people lined up in orderly columns behind those living—'row upon row rise the phantoms behind us'. Actually, looking over our shoulder, we would see only around 15 rows.