Quotes About Humanity

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

What saves us? he said wryly. You do know the answer, Alix. 'Tis all the things you mentioned to Merwynna, and something else. He looked into her green eyes. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. Love saves us? Does it not? Not simply sexual love, but also love of one's fellow man, love of God, love of family and

I've known a lot of cops like him over the years. Veterans, usually. Older. They have experience, but they lack the humanity that would otherwise define them as good cops. The more they see, the less they feel. The less they care. They become cynical and bitter and apathetic. They give all cops a bad rap.

What could have happened to make a man look like that, as if he believed in nothing, trusted no one, and had nothing left of any value to himself except, perhaps, his own life—and that was only a "perhaps." Yet he was still only a man, for all his dangerousness. He was tired and ill, and

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?

If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?

It is not altogether an easy matter to undress and get ready for the night when you have no chair, no bed, no table, no water, only a little straw, and are thrown in with numbers of other people in a dark room.

Physical courage is a fairly common trait in human beings. The other war and this one even more so have shown that there is a far greater quantum of physical courage in the world than has usually been supposed.

Nu avea niciun sens s? se simt? furios. Trebuie s? iei viaÈ›a aÈ™a cum e: stupid?, minunat?, inteligent?, rea, nebuneasc? È™i foarte, foarte pl?cut?. Trebuie s? accepÈ›i sl?biciunile oamenilor ca pe un dat, s? le iei în calcul È™i s? le foloseÈ™ti pentru cauza nobil?.

În el pulsa aversiunea profund? a omului înÈ›elept È™i omenos împotriva unui lucru atât de inutil, complet stupid È™i atavic precum r?zboiul. Dintre numeroasele jocuri stupide ale oamenilor, r?zboiul i se p?rea cel mai stupid È™i mai costisitor.

We soon lost all sense of privacy in the camp. There was no effort to conceal ugliness and deformity, whether of body or of soul. One saw much that was ugly beyond words.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual.… For it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. —M. SCOTT PECK Women

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.