Quotes About Humanity

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

Upon the streets a kitten's mew and beggar's shoe are calling and the voiceless ask to borrow yours so sweet and always falling. — Awaken, Love

When this happens, when you must protect yourself or those in your care, the real sin would be in taking life easily. The only way to maintain any humanity is to remember the faces of those who've died. To carry them within ourselves so that whatever good might have remained in their spirits has someplace to dwell. You cannot kill, then forget their faces without forgetting some part of yourself.

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.

In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.

but everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.

He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17

Lange, who had been stricken by polio at the age of seven and walked with a painful limp, had become famous for the achingly sympathetic photographs she'd taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. "Cripples know about each other," she said of her ability to capture suffering on film.

How do people reconcile themselves to war's worst cruelties?

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.