Quotes About Humanity

My name is Carter Hall and I am a detective of history. But you are a detective, too. For to be human, at its core, is to question and quest. To seek answers about who we are. Even when--or especially when--those answers are beyond our grasp.

We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46)

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

at a deeper level, our anthropocentrism manifests itself as a conviction that human beings somehow matter to the universe.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.