Quotes about Humanity

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

All by nature are essentially evil, nothing but "flesh"; everything in us is contrary to holiness.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

Exploration by real people inspires us.