Quotes About Humanity

And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Starvation! exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

Gli uomini veramente generosi sono sempre pronti a divenire compassionevoli allorché la disgrazia del nemico supera i limiti del loro odio.

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!

Oh, the wickedness of man is very great, said Villefort, since it surpasses the goodness of God.

A human being has to look out for other human beings or else there's no civilization.

Our mission in this life is to love everyone. To love when it hurts. To love under stress. To love the unlovable. Ultimately, we love not because the object of our love is worthy of it. We love because we are spirit and it is our nature to love.

A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.

the world is no fit place for human beings. we harm and ache.

Humanness is a window thrown against a wall.

Along with too many people and too much money have come the ills that now afflict America, Europe, Japan alike. And while I can accept the crowds, the autos, the television, I cannot accept the diminution of humanity that follows—the sensationalism, the cynicism, the brutality. Though I am not interested in the humane disciplines, not interested in humanity itself, I am interested in people, some of them, and I believe in them, a few of them.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

Los Salmos fueron escritos por hombres de carne y hueso quienes fueron también hombres de Dios. Ellos experimentaron conflictos reales y pruebas duras, tal como nosotros mismos los padecemos. No tienes que leer mucho antes de encontrar que sus palabras se convierten en las tuyas y sus corazones expresan tu propio corazón.