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Quotes About Humanity

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.
~ Joseph Delaney
I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.
~ Junaid Jamshed
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.
~ Luke Timothy Johnson
There is no perfection only life
~ Milan Kundera
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
~ Peter Ustinov
A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.
~ Osamu Tezuka
Abortion is in violation of God-given life.
~ Richard Halverson
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
~ Henri Matisse
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
~ J. I. Packer
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~ Joseph Rotblat
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
~ Bill Forsyth
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives
~ Bob Avakian
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
~ Helen Keller
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
~ Hesiod
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
~ Iris Murdoch
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
~ Jessica Hagedorn
Human life is beyond comprehension.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.
~ Samuel Shem
Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.
~ Tom Regan
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
~ Virginia Woolf
We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.
~ Wally Hickel