Quotes about Humanity

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

But the courage to go against a sweep of feeling, to be an awkward minority, to stand up and be counted, even when it makes one unpopular, is not as prevalent as it should be. We have a long way to go to achieve responsible citizenship and common self-respecting humanity.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.