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Quotes About Humanity

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.
~ Amy Dickinson
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.
~ Angelina Jolie
Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
~ Angelo Scola
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
~ Anne Rice
No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.
~ Anthony D. Williams
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
~ Asne Seierstad
It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
~ Beatrice Sparks
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.
~ Beau Bridges
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
~ Ben Stein
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
~ Bernie Glassman
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
~ Bertrand Russell
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
~ Brennan Manning
Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
~ Cassia Leo
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.
~ Charlie Haden
We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.
~ Chris Cleave
I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.
~ Chris Wyse
When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.
~ Chrisette Michele
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
~ Christina Stead
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
~ Christopher Bram
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
~ Christopher McDougall
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon