Quotes about Humanity

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Cruelty is the only sin.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.