Quotes About Humanity

When you see as many dead as I do they begin to blur into one colossal corpse. The world-carcass.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I have a lot of faith in people.

Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature.

since it would always be a sin, in any man of estate, to let his brother perish for want of affording him relief out of his plenty.

We are all born slaves, and we must continue so;

Whether there be any such moral principles, wherein all men do agree, I appeal to any who have been but moderately conversant in the history of mankind, and looked abroad beyond the smoke of their own chimneys.

And amongst those who are counted the civilized part of mankind

Children, I confess, are not born in this state of equality, though they are born to it.

Of that duality that makes us who we are, he is wholly evil. Duality? We are all two things in a way, are we not? Deep in the marrow. Angel and devil. Light and dark. The pull between the two is the active verb which energizes our lives.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

God left all men free; Nature has made no man a slave.' (Anonymous, in Rhetorica Aristotelis, CAG XXI: 2, p. 74 Rabe) This, remarkably, is the only surviving testimony to what must have been a fairly widespread sophistic thesis, that slavery is contrary to nature (referred to disapprovingly by Aristotle at Politics 1253b20ff.).

Someday we will be only spirit, and all one; but here on earth we're made of earth, and sometimes flesh must touch.

Pero la libertad humana sí existe y es importante para la responsabilidad ética. Cuando Dios juzga las obras humanas, a veces toma en consideración lo que somos capaces y lo que no somos capaces de hacer. En Lucas 12:47-48 leemos:

Lo mismo es cierto de la ética. Por ejemplo, la Biblia no menciona el aborto. Necesitamos aprender lo que es el aborto de fuentes extrabíblicas. Las Escrituras dicen algunas cosas acerca del asesinato y acerca de la vida humana antes de nacer. Cuando unimos los principios bíblicos con nuestro conocimiento extrabíblico de lo que es el aborto, llega a ser obvio que "no matarás" implica "no abortarás".

The Two Kingdoms view maintains that the kingdom came in Jesus and will come again in Jesus' return, but that it is confined to the church in the period between Jesus' two advents. That view goes against the passages cited above. Clearly, the kingdom has in fact deeply affected human culture over the centuries: in the sciences, the arts, the treatment of orphans and widows, education, and every other area of importance to human beings.

He believed that our humanity rests upon our ability to unite across different worlds of experience.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human urges despised by philosophers. Wickedness and debauchery may not be the only answers, but they are certainly the ones with the widest appeal.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.

I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.

No, Hell wasn't anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.

Why did people call it Hell?" I wondered. [...] No place was Hell, no place could be Hell. It's the people calling it Hell, that's the only thing that made it so. People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly anymore. [...] No, Hell wasn't anything to do with place, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.