Quotes About Humanity

It is still God who is responsible for giving us our daily bread. Though He could give it to us directly, by a miraculous provision, as He once did for the children of Israel when He fed them daily with manna, God has chosen to work through human beings, who, in their different capacities and according to their different talents, serve each other. This is the doctrine of vocation. p.14

After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.

When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

Why should the Increate protect us from ourselves? We might protect ourselves from ourselves. It may be that he will help us only when we come to regret what we have done.

There is something in all of us that has always been dead," I said. "If only because we know that eventually we will die. All of us except the smallest children.

There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men—all are dead.

In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music;

You know what the biologists say: Man has reached the stage where he evolves through his machines.

But there is no such reason to mourn the destruction of a colony of cells: such a colony dies each time a loaf of bread goes into the oven. If a man is no more than such a colony, a man is nothing; but we instinctively know that man is more. What happens then to the part that is more?

I decided that the future most in keeping with the dark figure I planned and his journey toward war was what I call the do-nothing future, the one in which humanity clings to its old home, the continents of Earth, and waits for the money to run out.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead.

Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

What should distress modern Australians, in addition to the virulence of the racism which infected these founding fathers, is the fact that it blinded them to the advantage of adopting, like the US, a code of universal human values, a bedrock of principles upon which Australian law could develop logically and humanely. Thus Australia was endowed with a supreme law – its constitution – which lacked any systemic protection for citizen liberties.

Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.

Die Unterschiede sind so groß nicht, wir alle sind Schurken und Engel, Dummköpfe und Genies, und zwar das alles in einem: Die vier Dinge finden Platz genug in dem nämlichen Körper, sie sind nicht so breit, als man sich einbildet. Schlafen, Verdauen, Kinder machen - das treiben alle; die übrigen Dinge sind nur Variationen aus verschiedenen Tonarten über das nämliche Thema.

Es gibt nur Epikureer, und zwar grobe und feine, Christus war der feinste; das ist der einzige Unterschied, den ich zwischen den Menschen herausbringen kann. Jeder handelt seiner Natur gemäß, d.h. er tut, was ihm wohltut.

Ich hab es satt; wozu sollen wir Menschen miteinander kämpfen? Wir sollten uns nebeneinandersetzen und Ruhe haben. Es wurde ein Fehler gemacht, wie wir geschaffen wurden; es fehlt uns etwas, ich habe keinen Namen dafür - aber wir werden es einander nicht aus den Eingeweiden herauswühlen, was sollen wir uns drum die Leiber aufbrechen?

Woyzeck Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

Das Widermenschliche, das Tierische besteht darin, im Gefühle stehen zu bleiben und nur durch dieses sich mitteilen zu können.