Quotes About Humanity

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

we are not "the People of the Book." We are "the People with the Book," but even more importantly, we are "the People of the Person.

Desmond Tutu: "God, without us, will not; as we, without God cannot.")

We humans are not getting more evil or sinful but are simply getting more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do--including sin as willed violence. And so, we have become, as Genesis 4 warned us inaugurally, steadily or even exponentially better and better at violence. And now, at last, that capacity threatens not just the family or the tribe, but the world and the Earth.

Justice without love is brutality. Love without justice is banality.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.

No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .

Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.

No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

[Of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:] Here is God's plenty.

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.