Quotes About Humanity

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.