Quotes About Humanity

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

Frederick Douglass, who had encountered racism even within abolitionist ranks, considered Lincoln a fundamentally decent individual. "He treated me as a man," Douglass remarked in 1864, "he did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.

Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.

Humankind suffer their emotion. We can not hide them. In Body Language secrets are revealed.

we are, in fact, more susceptible than we might wish to think. At

Yunus, now a famous Nobel Prize winner, was invited to meet with the CEO of Adidas, who wanted to understand the concept of social businesses, which Yunus described as a kind of business that is "built on the selfless part of human nature" and in which "everything is for the benefit of others and nothing is for the owners—except the pleasure of serving humanity."5

Little value comes out of the belief that people will respond progressively better by treating them progressively worse.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you're not human. Like you're a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They're stuck on that person I used to be. They can't see that old life as just a moment in time that I've moved on from. It was a horrible life.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Ah, Peggy, and how should I know? All I do know is that ye'd be feeding all the stray dogs and waifs and tramps in the world if ye had your way.

But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

Speak out for those who cannot speak"—who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.

Bonhoeffer was constantly trying to correct the idea of a false choice between God and humanity, or heaven and earth. God wanted to redeem humanity and to redeem this earth, not to abolish them. As

God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. In the whole of world history there is only one real significant hour ... the present ... if you want to find eternity, you must serve the times.

He and his allies declared that every human being was equal in God's sight and made in the image of God, and must therefore be treated with equal dignity.

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

God is free not from human beings but for them.

What Wilberforce vanquished was something even worse than slavery, something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: he vanquished the very mind-set that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia.