Quotes About Humanity

B]eyond the divisiveness among men there exists a primordial unitive power since we are all bound together by a common humanity more fundamental than any unity of dogma.

Knowledge [...] no longer consists in a manipulation of man and nature as opposite forces, nor in the reduction of data to mere statistical order, but is a means of liberating mankind from the destructive power of fear, pointing the way toward the goal of the rehabilitation of the human will and the rebirth of faith and confidence in the human person.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we're made of atoms. But I think we are made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Just because you don't care about anyone doesn't mean everyone else is like that too!

If tragedy is about the fact that people are mortal, then comedy is about the fools we make of ourselves on the way to the grave.

Capital punishment: Capital punishment has no role in a perfect world. But since the world we live in is far from perfect I say reserve it only for the offenders who justly deserve it. We as humanity need to strive for and accomplish a just and peaceful world so that way we can abolish capital punishment altogether.

Humanity is a disease that needs to be eradicated.

Once you realize how flawed, corrupt, worthless, and evil people are, their lies won't bother you as much anymore.

The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.

The more integrity you have the more humanity will offend you, the less integrity you have the less offensive humanity will be to you.

What's more unjust, cruel, and disgusting than humanity and Hell? God.

You're not in this world to meet my standards, and I'm not in this world to meet yours, but we are all in this world to meet the standards of justice.

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

We are here among people who don't contemplate transience and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud just to survive another day.

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

I'll keep waiting, for as long as it takes, for this war to be seen in everyone's eyes for what it always was, the most filthy, savage, useless obsenity that ever there was.

There are many things in this world that trouble me,' she said. 'Do they not trouble you, too?

Perhaps not yet,' said the tyger, 'but you have the potential. Every human being has it. At first, only immortals did. But then someone stole a spark from the fires of infinity, and gave it to your kind. So now the power of creation is yours, like perception and imagination. And with these powers, there is nothing you cannot do.

God is the greatest of artists! How good of Him to give us this world, and the change to imitate Him by bettering it. Wryly: If only we did not mar it, and ourselves, so often!

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?