Quotes About Humanity

My father just didn't want to believe something like that [genocide of the Jews] was possible — it's very understandable. He just couldn't believe the humanistic Germans he knew would do such a thin

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.

One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.

After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Although invariably kind and courteous he had the air of seeming not to be particularly interested in human beings – a somewhat doubtful quality in a parish priest, though it had its advantages.

I wasn't really making fun of you,' said Jane as they settled themselves in the carriage. 'I was seeing you as a human being for the first time.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us—the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Now we have a humanist's despair before the News,

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Books are humanity in print.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

There was an aura about 1914 that caused those who sensed it to shiver for mankind. Tears came even to the most bold and resolute.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

Human behavior is timeless.

it is reassuring to know that the human species has lived through worse before.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.