Quotes About Humanity

One always has hope for human nature

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

We're all mad, dear lady," he said as he ushered her in through the door. "That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been. And though using slightly different phraseology, the subjects of conversation were the same.

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.

A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny.

so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.

Was that really and truly what people were secretly feeling everywhere? Was that what, ultimately, war did to you? It was not the physical dangers—the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think…

Is nobody incapable of murder?" "I have often wondered." said Hercule Poirot.

Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

Os elefantes não esquecem-disse a senhora Oliver-,mas nós somos seres humanos e temos a capacidade de esquecer." Os elefantes não se esquecem.

Oh, Lord," muttered Anthony, "what a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.

Vera cried: 'Don´t you see? We´re the Zoo...Last night, we were hardly human any more. We´re the Zoo...