Quotes About Humanity

This preoccupation with the difficulty of getting a thought out of one head and into another is something the industrialists share with a substantial number of intellectuals and creative writers, more and more of whom seem inclined to regard communication, or the lack of it, as one of the greatest problems not just of industry but of humanity.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. 'The subject exhibited a pain response.' But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her .

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

War is fundamental. A man's views on war tell you the basic axioms of his view on life.

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

One day I had the paradoxical realization that humanity's search for meaning seduces it back into the world of thought and struggle, while pure sensing returns everything to the flow of Divinity. Suddenly the phrase "come to your senses!" is strikingly clear.

No morally imperfect human being(s), born into "the double darkness of sin and ignorance" could ever qualify for the position of Master Utilitarian Manipulator that Consequentialism needs to be put into practice.

Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

It teaches us not to regard others according to their own merits, but to consider in them the image of God to which we owe both honor and love. But

where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men. Each

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This

Man is endowed with a singular excellence, for God formed him in his own image and likeness, in which we see a bright refulgence of God's glory. Furthermore

It is clear that bearing the cross patiently does not mean that we harden ourselves or do not feel any sorrow; according to the old notion of the Stoic philosophers that a greathearted man is someone who has laid off his humanity, and who is not touched by adversity and prosperity, and not even by joy and sorrow, but who acts like a cold rock.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section

In particular, we must observe   this general rule, that we cordially desire and labor for the welfare   of the whole human race. Thus it will come to pass, that we shall not   only give way to the exercise of God's mercy, but shall also wish the   conversion of those who seem obstinately to rush upon their own   destruction. In

The fact is that unless we are extricated by the grace of Christ, we remain subject to the violence of a whole mass of innumerable evils.