Quotes About Humanity

one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain, Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds; Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap, Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding. No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny, Life spurts from you, little world, and you regard it with disdain. Only bruised men sense your cruelty, men whose life has lost its meaning.

The real response to the problem of human sin must always be that I cannot do anything to erase it.

don't want to be revealed as a source of suffering and misery, preferring to see men and women directing their anger at one another or blaming God. On

The greatest danger we face from this machine age is that we will become engrossed with mechanical gadgets and forget we have hearts. Man cannot live by bread alone nor by machinery alone. The heart must be nurtured. For this reason the prophet and the poet are more important to a nation than the engineer or the inventor. Longfellow and Whittier have meant more to us than Edison or Ford. Burns's songs have meant more to Scotland than Watts's steam engine.

James Leo Herlihy

You saved whomever you could, whenever you could, regardless of their character or their relationship to you. You used heroic measures even for the least heroic individuals.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Treat the patient, not the Xray.

His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.

in spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.

Only God is perfect! None of us comes within a country, not a country mile, but a whole country, in proximity to perfection.