Quotes About Humanity

El debate no puede ser sobre si la ciencia es buena o mala, sino más bien al servicio de quién debe estar, aceptando que el conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad. El conocimiento obtenido por la ciencia es de un valor ético neutral, pero no así la tecnología, ya que su utilización puede hacerse con fines moralmente acceptables o reprobables.

Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.

If I might comprehend Jesus Christ, I could not believe on Him. He would be no greater than myself. Such is my consciousness of sin and inability that I must have a superhuman Saviour.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

This must always be admitted of us—for desperate dash and cruelty we were unbettered men.

No matter how good the justification, I still see all the identities that divide human beings along racial or national lines as prisons. I'm not about to give artificial categories and man-made borders the right to limit my ties with other human beings and dictate what values I should or should not embrace.

Indeed, the art of democratic writing demands of its practitioners the aspiration to write to any and all, for any and all. It is a philanthropic art: it requires affection for humanity.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings. Angelology pg. 32

Atunci a zis Domul Dumnezeu c?tre Noe: " Sosit-a înaintea feÈ›ei Mele sfârÈ™itul a tot omul, c?ci s-a umplut p?mântul de nedrept??ile lor, È™i iat? Eu îi voi pierde de pe p?mânt.>

L?comia de averi, nedreptatea social?, r?azboiul, toate acestea sunt manifest?ri ale r?ului din lumea noastr?.

Kad budu svi roktali svojim svinjskim srcima, poslednji koji ?e još gledati ljudskim o?ima i ose?ati ljudskim srcem bi?e oni kojima ne bejaše strano iskustvo umetnosti.

A sve što nadživi smrt jeste jedna mala ništavna pobeda nad ve?noš?u ništavila - dokaz ljudske veli?ine i Jahvine milosti. Non omnis moriar.

Jer - a to je mislim osnovna poruka sastavlja?a "Enciklopedije" - nikad se ništa ne ponavlja u istoriji ljudskih bi?a, sve što se na prvi pogled ?ini da je isto jedva da je sli?no; svaki je ?ovek zvezda za sebe, sve se doga?a uvek i nikad, sve se ponavlja beskrajno i neponovljivo. (Stoga sastavlja?i "Enciklopedije mrtvih", tog veli?anstvenog spomenika razli?itosti, insistiraju na pojedina?nom, zato im je svako ljudsko stvorenje svetinja.)

Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on the earth," he said. "This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people.

By the way, all of these benefits come from people who can't give you anything for your time but love and need. As I tell so many people, "Working in a hospice pays off. It may not pay off here in the mortal world, but in the spiritual sense, the retirement program is out of this world.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Conosco un paese che ha provocato ben due guerre mondiali in un secolo e ha proposto una «soluzione finale», e nessuno lo ha mai definito maledetto. Conosco un paese insensibile alla disperazione umana, che continua a ridurre alla fame l'intero pianeta forte del suo strapotere finanziario, e nessuno lo definisce maledetto. Anzi, si presenta al mondo come il popolo benedetto dagli dèi, o meglio da Dio. Allora perché mai Haiti dovrebbe essere maledetta?

there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." These words are "inspiring," by which we mean that they flatter us.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them.