Quotes About Humanity

Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.

On Earth, when I was a boy, most everybody got sick. Rashes, funny little fevers. All the unmodified people got sick every now and then. It's part of being human. We think of viruses as evil but in reality few are. Life usually seeks to cooperate, not fight.

Men lie injured and dying between the old headstones: Macedonians, Albanians, Wallachians, Serbians, some in so much agony that they seem reduced to something less than human, as though pain were a leveling wave, a mortar troweled over everything that person once was.

Casi todas las especies que han existido alguna vez se han extinguido en el presente. No hay ningún motivo para pensar que con la raza humana vaya a ocurrir algo distinto.

Children are often called our greatest resource, as if they were deposits of tin. But a child is not (just as an adult is not) a lever in an economic machine, a vehicle for commerce, a revenue source for the all-powerful state. He is a human being, made in the image and likeness of God— made, that is, for goodness and truth and beauty.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

We do not know what or how to teach children, because we do not know what a child is, and we do not know what a child is, because we do not know what man is -- and Him from whom and for whom man is.

Beneath the Moon there is nothing that is not mortal and doomed to decay, except for the souls which, by the grace of the gods, have been conferred on humankind. But above the Moon everything is eternal.

Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand "evil" at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

Let me ask you a question, Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this planet today?" "Is that including or not including you?" Alex asked.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

Pünd had never seen murder as a game, not even as a puzzle to be solved. His work was an examination of humanity at its darkest and most desperate. You could not solve crime unless you understood its genesis.

wonderful and reassuring about the idea that in the rush of modern life people will still come together and sit for an hour in a theatre, a gymnasium or a giant tent simply out of a love of books and reading. There's a sort of innocence about

Man was a complicated animal capable of extraordinary good and great evil – but he was definitely on his own.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.