Quotes About Humanity

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls...

Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

you don't need a calling to minister love...

I believe I am no man's enemy unless he chooses to make me one. For me it's humanity that counts, not the words written in the book of any religion

I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined.

Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

whereas in the rest of the ancient world creation was set up to serve the gods, a theocentric view, in Genesis, creation is not set up for the benefit of God but for the benefit of humanity—an anthropocentric view.

The point is that all of the known nations and peoples resulted from the blessing God had established from the beginning. National and ethnic diversity was not an aberration. There is no room for the concept that there is one pure race while others are tainted, somehow the result of sin or corruption.

In Israel people also believed that they had been created to serve God. The difference was that they saw humanity as having been given a priestly role in sacred space44 rather than as slave labor to meet the needs of deity.

In Israel people also believed that they had been created to serve God. The difference was that they saw humanity as having been given a priestly role in sacred space[43] rather than as slave labor to meet the needs of deity.

The protection of rights is inevitable if preservation of dignity is valued.

On the basis of Adam's statement, combined with these data on usage, we would have to conclude that God took one of Adam's sides—likely meaning he cut Adam in half and from one side built the woman.

When your life is shit, it's easy to forget just how many good people are in the world.

She had faith that each moment would be finer than the last. She believed that people were good