Quotes About Humanity

it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.

This discovery will draw us closer to the day when humanity can cast aside its evil ways and eventually join the galactic civilization.

Epidemiologists generally agree that smallpox is the cruelest disease ever to afflict the human race.

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.

Leishmaniasis has a long and terrible history with human beings, stretching back as far as human records exist and causing suffering and death for thousands of years.

This beast, this angel is both you and I

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being, consciousness becomes conscious of itself as both formlessness and as all forms. This is why, to the true sage, everything is divine, whole, and complete. Everything is God, the Self. (p. 71)

What is the cause of suffering in the human being? Why is it that human beings have such a difficult time putting their suffering down? What's the reason that we often carry it around, when it becomes such a burden to us? One of the primary reasons we suffer is because we believe what we think, that the thoughts in our heads come uninvited into our consciousness, swirl around, and we attach to them. We identify with them and grab hold of them.

Once again, eternity is peering through the latticework of time and space, and this sense of eternal stillness and deep freedom is what the iconic image of the seated Buddha conveys. What this image doesn't convey is a sense of humanity, of a real flesh-and-blood human being. But in the Jesus story, it's as if the still point that the image of the Buddha evokes within us becomes

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

The world is full of good people who do bad things!

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.