Quotes About Humanity

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

If the Martians take the writings of moral philosophers as a guide to what goes on on this planet they will get a shock when they arrive.

Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.

Nothing touches me more than cracks in the armor and the person who reveals them.

I do not have the preconceptions of the bigot, and I have more faith in mankind than I do in a morality in which everything is proscribed.

Las cosas no son blancas ni negras, lo que reina es el gris. Los hombres, sus almas... Pasa lo mismo. Tú eres un alma gris, rematadamente gris, cómo todos nosotros.

Dis Papa, c'est quoi le mal? C'est la bêtise des hommes qui parfois vont se perdre Dans de sentiers de pierre Et prennent des cailloux pour les lancer en l'air

Ovidio ha scritto che il tempo distrugge le cose, ma si è sbagliato. Soltanto gli uomini distruggono le cose. E distruggono gli altri uomini. E distruggono il mondo degli uomini. Il tempo li guarda fare e disfare. E scorre indifferente.

Vä?šina ?udí nemá potuchy o svojich temných stránkach, a predsa ich majú vÅ¡etci. Odhalia ich ?asto okolnosti, vojny, hladomor, revolúcie, genocídy. A ke? sa ?udia po prvý raz v skrytosti svojho vedomia nad nimi zamyslia, z?aknú sa ich a nasko?ia im zimomriavky.

When I see a dead bird," Hans Dorfer said to me, "and I pick it up in my hand, tears come into my eyes. I can't make them not come. Nothing can justify the death of a bird. But if my father croaked all of a sudden, right here, right next to me, I swear I'd dance around the table and buy you a drink. I swear.

Tiesa gali suraižyti rankas ir palikti tokias žaizdas, su kuriom nebegal?si gyventi, o daugelis m?s? labiausiai ir nori - gyventi. Ir kuo neskausmingiau. Tai žmogiška.

Cuando le pregunté si no le pesaba la soledad, se quedó pensando un buen rato y luego, con voz grave y serena dijo: «Estar solo es el sino del hombre, de un modo u otro». Me pareció una frase muy hermosa y muy falsa a la vez. Tú no estás a mi lado, pero es como si te sintiera junto a mí a cada segundo, y te hablo a menudo, en voz alta.

Qu'est-ce que donc que la vie humaine si ce n'est un collier de blessures que l'on porte autour de son cou? A quoi sert d'aller ainsi dans les jours, les mois, les années, toujours plus faible, toujours meurtri?

Rien n'est tout noir, ni tout blanc, c'est le gris qui gangne. Les hommes et leurs âmes, c'est pareil... T'es une âme grise, joliment grise, comme nous tous...

Qué es la vida sino un collar de heridas que cada hombre se cuelga del cuello?

Ik heb nog nooit een schoft of een heilige gezien. De dingen zijn nooit helemaal zwart of helemaal wit, alles is grijs. Mensen en hun zielen ook… Je ziel is grijs, behoorlijk grijs, zoals die van ons allemaal…

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.

Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different. How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

Darvinizam je pri?a o osloba?anju ?ovje?anstva od iluzije da njegovom sudbinom upravlja neka sila viša od njega.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.