Humanity Quotes

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

~ Niall Ferguson

Moral questions may not have objective answers—whether revealed by God or by science—but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

~ Kenan Malik

Humans are, as Sartre put it, ‘condemned to be free’. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

~ Kenan Malik

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.

~ Immanuel Kant

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

~ Joe Hill

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.

~ Robert Graves

And after the briefest flowering of understanding, my own generation had grown complacent. At some level, we must have started taking it for granted that the way the universe worked was now obvious to any child ... even though it went against everything innate to the species: the wild, undisciplined love of patterns, the craving to extract meaning and comfort from everything in sight.We thought we were passing on everything that mattered to our children: science, history, literature,art. Vast libraries of information lay at their fingertips. But we hadn't fought hard enough to pass onthe hardest-won truth of all: Morality comes only from within. Meaning comes only from within. Outside our own skulls, the universe is indifferent.

~ Greg Egan

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

~ Xenphon Ephesius

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

~ Cheikh Anta Diop

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

~ David L. Lloyd

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

~ David L. Lloyd

Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman's doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all men were lost sinners, I have never heard her censure a man with so much as half a word. All her life is symbolized in the only words which she knows in her dotage. Please do; and, God bless you.

~ Halldór Laxness

Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.

~ Evan Grinde

In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.

~ Evan Grinde

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like? Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

~ John Ruskin

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

~ Luke Myer

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

~ L.m. Fields

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish.Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so.

~ Joe Abercrombie

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

~ Gary Steiner

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

~ Harper Lee

It is not a god that makes us more human, it is we human that make Gods.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human

~ Steven Magee

If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans.

~ Steven Magee

The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.

~ Steven Magee

Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.

~ Steven Magee

If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.

~ Steven Magee

The only things flawless about me are my flaws.

~ Amanda Mosher

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

~ Crystal Woods

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

~ Shaka Senghor

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.

~ Sol Luckman

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

~ Aldous Huxley

A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.

~ T.f. Hodge

Improving the human condition takes little effort, destroying it takes maximum force.

~ T.f. Hodge

You both talk too much,” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

~ Karen Marie Moning

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.

~ Amit Kalantri

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

~ Anna Funder

I do have faith in humanity but I don’t have faith in humans.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.

~ Ankita Singhal

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a long, long time ago.

~ Tracey Emin