Quotes About Humanity

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

Time matters less than the nature of the people.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.