Quotes About Humanity

don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

Articles began to appear with titles like "The Human Side of John D. Rockefeller," as if its existence wasn't taken for granted.

Doubtless embarrassed, he contested insinuations that he was motivated by greed instead of a humble desire to serve God or humanity.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

As he watched people scheme and grovel for Rockefeller's fortune, it was hard to preserve his faith in human nature.

You was the onlyest person that looked past my skin and past my meanness and saw that there was somebody on the inside worth savin...We all has more in common than we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming into it. Tears from the very start.

One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I'm thinking is maybe it's time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn't working.

God moved, and the prophet mouthed these revealed truths. God revealed and man recorded His Word to humankind.1

American Presbyterians strove to balance a high view of God with a low view of humanity.

Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary. We should rise above bitterness and reproach, and if Americans could come together in a spirit of understanding and helping, then we could find positive solutions to the tragedy of abortion.

I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.

If suddenly there was a threat to this world form some other species from another planet, we'd forget all the little local differences that we have between our two countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on this earth.

No hay nada ridículo en la #Intimidad, no hay nada escatológico ni repudiable en ese lento fuego doméstico de sudor y de fiebre, de mocos y estornudos, de pedos y ronquidos.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

La cotidianeidad tiene estos lazos, el entrañamiento del aire que se respira a dos, del sudor que se mezcla, la ternura animal de lo irremediable.

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

Lo que acabo de hacer es el truco más viejo de la Humanidad frente al horror. La creatividad es justamente esto: un intento alquímico de transmutar el sufrimiento en belleza.

Toda guerra es abominable; las guerras civiles son, además, perversas. Ya lo habéis visto ahora en Yugoslavia. En España fue también así. Violencia y crueldad hasta la náusea.