Quotes About Humanity

The second thing I believe is that all of us would be human again if we could.

Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

Actually, he had always found talk of hell highly offensive. He'd always sensed that those who did believe in hell had little or no empathy for those they assumed to be suffering there. Indeed, quite the opposite. Hellfire believers seem to delight in the idea that most of the human race would end up in just such a horrible place.

What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!

That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.

Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.

Why do we weep when we see something beautiful? Why are we weakened by beauty? Why does it break our hearts?

But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.

Seems I'd read somewhere, or heard it in a film, that the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe. And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power, I was somehow kin to every mortal man. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.

I was a human being once," said the younger ghost. "I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.

Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.' 'That's not true. Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually...it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have.

LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe.

Oh, not goodness again," he said. "You and your malady of mortality, and your malady of goodness.

I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.

What race can live with any other? What religion with any other? War is worldwide; and the wars are tribal, no matter what men say they are! They are tribal, and they are wars of extermination, whether it be the Arabs against the Kurds, or the Turks and the Europeans, or the Russian fighting the Oriental. It's never going to stop. People dream that it will, but it can't, as long as there are people.

Good and evil, those are concepts man has made. And man is better, really, than the Savage Garden.

Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. He takes the richest and the poorest, as so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves

Acaso no sería mejor el mundo si nunca más se quemara a nadie en el nombre de Dios? —pregunté—. ¿Si no se continuara creyendo que Dios puede ordenar al hombre hacer tal cosa a su semejante? ¿Cuál es el peligro de un mundo racional donde horrores como éste no se produzcan?

Sometime in the far future there may be such a leader. He will reduce man to the nakedness and fear from which he came. And we shall feed upon him effortlessly as we have always done, and the Savage Garden, as you call it, will cover the world.