Quotes About Humanity

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

I believe in the right to life.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white. I'm not a person that really deals in color.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.