Quotes About Humanity

If one didn't know better, one would think that man, in his fear of losing all that he loves, had created heaven, along with its gatekeeper God, in his own image.

Christians.....expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide.

Clearly, one of the great tasks of civilization is to create cultural mechanisms that protect us from the moment-to-moment failures of our ethical intuitions.

there seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.

Any culture that raises men and boys to kill unlucky girls, rather than comfort them, is a culture that has managed to retard the growth of love. Such

To see how fully our moral intuitions must shift, consider what would happen if we discovered a cure for human evil. Imagine that every relevant change in the human brain could now be made cheaply, painlessly, and safely. In fact, the cure could be put directly into the food supply, like vitamin D. Evil would become nothing more than a nutritional deficiency.

Our interests in life are not always served by viewing people and things as collections of atoms—but this doesn't negate the truth or utility of physics.

ideas which divide one group of human beings from another, only to unite them in slaughter, generally have their roots in religion.

Identity must start with humanity as a founding principle, and human rights as a basis.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.