Quotes about Humanity

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

If you're going to create a character, the tools you use to make that character 'real' are the lives you see around you. The people you listen to on the street. The emotions you see on faces and bodies while you're sitting... in a Starbucks, watching the world go by.