Quotes About Humanity

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person's day – or maybe even his or her life.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye.

However, whatever your own path is, wherever it takes you, there is one instruction you should protect and always carry with you: never give up on anyone. Even if you can't help someone now, don't abandon him or her mentally or close the door to your heart. That is the direct word of the Buddha, our ancient revolutionary friend, and if you forget it, you'll hear it again from the mouth of the rebel buddha you're living with right now.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

But we are all in the same boat, old and young. I never forget that.

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men.

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

i sing of Olaf glad and bigwhose warmest heart recoiled at war

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

But wait - where did the gods come from 100,000 years ago? Early Homo Sapiens certainly had conversations with other early Homo Sapiens regarding what they thought of one another, and what they thought about a third early Homo Sapiens who had insulted them, and why they were no longer on speaking terms with the other person, ad finitum, just as happens today. But you cannot have such conversations about the gods or with the gods unless you have gods.

The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.

Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.

Do you think a person is as bad as her worst actions?...I mean, do our worst actions define us when we're alive? Or, do you think human beings are better than the very worst things we have ever done?

Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, "Never eat anything bigger than your ass.

Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Bu dünya berbat bir yer, hepsi bu.

Be a little kinder - Mirren

By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in humanity except the need for an Absolute, which will survive the destruction of temples and even the disappearance of religion on earth. The core of the Russian people being religious, they will inevitably gain the upper hand...