Quotes about Humanity

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.