Quotes about Humanity

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Christopher Hitchens

It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality of the suffering of the artist, composer or writer, but it points to something creative and redemptive in the human person, made in the image of God, which can bring forth a thing of beauty in the midst of surrounding ugliness, brutality and evil. Nowhere is this more true than in the book of Lamentations.

my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.