Quotes About Humanity

It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.

The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal.

Life's not so simple. People are many things, each of them true.

But I think how we treat any one person is how we treat the world

I love the way Beck loves. If everyone loved like she did, the world would be a better place.

That's everyone. No one's perfect, and no one needs to be.

Everyone has flaws, even if you can't see them.

Why do we celebrate the monsters, the destroyers, the killers among us?

When your heroes reveal themselves as human, it exposes your own flaws, too. Naivete, mainly, a willingness to believe in someone, something.

She's gay?" "No." Addie reached for the burnt bagel, took a bite. "But she is human.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another," he said, "for in it are good and evil mixed.

Inom de flesta av oss är gott och ont sammanflätade så tätt som trådarna på en vävstol. Större visdom än min krävs för den domen.

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

Vi är varken onda eller goda. Vi är helt enkelt intresserade av saker precis som det de är.

There is a part of us in everyone else.

All talk and discussion about God (theo-logy means god-talk) is really an exercise in human self-understanding.

We humans now increasingly share in what used to be regarded as the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

Morality has its equations too - they graph the curve of compassion between the quick and the dead.

He gestured toward her twisted leg. Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots. Do you think it maken them quiet and nice, to be broken?

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, Might we be human? But Fastidious did not reply.

Now he understood about animals; and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas's shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human.

Things will be sacrificed; people will suffer. That is the way life works when we are human.