Humanity Quotes - Page 63

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

We are all alike, on the inside.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.