Quotes About Humanity

What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of.

Elisabeth hungered after pain, other people's pain to dull her own; the pain of those poor everyday people fed her life. She had become addicted to misery.

The difference between the Russian character and the Western is that we Russians have learned to live our days in the full knowledge that whatever transpires in the interim, the sun will eventually expand and humanity will be incinerated. It's a way of life precisely opposite to the American Dream. Call is Russian fatalism if you like. But it gives us a sense of perspective, a sense of humor, and perhaps a certain dignity.

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

If we each told each other our deepest, darkest secrets, we would laugh uproariously at our lack of originality.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

It was resolved, That England was too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in.

All human life is there.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

In Adam's fallWe sinned all.

But if you love him you'll forgive himEven though he's hard to understand.And if you love him, oh be proud of him'Cause after all he's just a man.

I don't eat people,I won't eat people,I don't eat people,Eating people is wrong!

People are not perfect (except when they smile).

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?

Jesus wept.

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

A certain Samaritan… had compassion on him.

Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Women and children first.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you."

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.