Humanity Quotes

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

~ Isidor Isaac Rabi

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

~ T.f. Hodge

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

~ George R.r. Martin

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

~ Suzy Kassem

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire.

~ H.g. Wells

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

~ Ashley Montagu

Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unknown suffering Of an empty heart and soul and thus their suffering is unknown. We cannot do everything; but still we can do something. Lend a hand to support the suffering ones.

~ Auliq Ice

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

~ Marquita Burke-Dejesus

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

~ Jim Beaver

We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.

~ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

~ Chris Galford

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

~ Richard Levins

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve.

~ Thorton Wilder

In a world of violence, Humanity needs more moments of confidence.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.

~ Aberjhani

We learn from education, experience and people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

~ L.r. Knost

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

~ Dave Donovan

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

~ Richard Rohr

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

~ Mark A.r. Kleiman

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

~ Brandi L. Bates

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.

~ Brandi L. Bates

It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is a free decision.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May we embrace one another with love, a smile and a warm hug?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May we love, support and help one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has enough timeless resources for all mankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are an inspiration to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot save ourselves. It is only Jesus Christ, who can set us free.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

~ Dean Koontz

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

~ Silje Akselberg Iversen

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri