Quotes About Humanity

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.

as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal.

What even differentiated a great and honorable war, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people, from a shameful genocide, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people?)

Weeping, a powerful physical process that was normally out of the question, became a constant possibility.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.

Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.

People with a strong sense of being embodied creatures, rather than being bundles of appetite provided with the machinery of a body to work upon, will prove difficult to persuade in the coming century of the biotechnocrats.

It is intellectually and spiritually incoherent to believe in the innocent play of children when you are willing to sacrifice them upon the altar of your ambition, your avarice, your lusts, or your convenience. You cannot suppress the reality of the child without amputating your humanity and searing the wound with bitumen and pitch. The

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it's the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

Cockroach: What is war? Man: How we lost the human race.

It could be said that the discovery of ourselves is at the heart of what we call enlightenment, which is to say that that big, bright light at the end of the tunnel is us. The problem is that no one wants to discover that we're no better or no worse than the rest—indeed, to discover that we're no different than the rest—because that's no fun.

Humanity is as horrified and repulsed by real nature as it is by real death. Thus, we strike back against this formidable opponent with our sharpest weapon: our imagination. From this noble tool—born of necessity and elevated to beauty—culture was born, and the war against nature begun.