Humanity Quotes

Really, the definition of what makes us “human” confuses me. Showing “humanity” is like this synonym for “treating others kindly” or “like you want to be treated” or whatever, when that isn’t really human at all. Whoever came up with that definition is a real scammer, and a real genius. More than anything else, humans have been terrible to each other throughout history, and this is still the way it works today and will continue to work. It’s how we’re wired. I have “human understanding”; that’s it.

~ A.d. Aliwat

Every one’s footprint is a landmark in the world history

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The story we write today will support the next generation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and modern. This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.

~ C.g. Jung

I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not.” -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall

~ J.m. Briggs

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

~ Rick Riordan

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

~ Alexander Pope

Humans see what they want to see.

~ Rick Riordan

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

~ Jane Addams

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

~ Suzanne Collins

We are each other's harvest, we are each other's business, we are each other's magnitude and bond.

~ Gwendolyn Brooks

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

~ Maya Angelou

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

~ Chris Maser

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

~ Markus Zusak

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

~ Terry Pratchett

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

~ Ellen Degeneres

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

~ George Bernard Shaw

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

~ Criss Jami

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

~ Andy Rooney

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

~ Rick Riordan

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

~ Rudyard Kipling

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

~ Sigmund Freud

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

~ Immanuel Kant

I'm just another stupid human.

~ Markus Zusak

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

~ Tess Gerritsen

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

~ Tom Robbins

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

~ Victor Hugo

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question.

~ Michael Crichton

That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker

~ Rick Yancey

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

~ Anthony Marra

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

~ Paulo Coelho

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Chaos was the law of nature, Order was the dream of man.

~ Henry Adams

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

~ N.k. Jemisin

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

~ John Steinbeck

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

~ Stanisław Lem

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

~ Joss Whedon