Quotes About Humanity

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.