Quotes about Humanity

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

To talk of rational beings apart from man is as if we attempted to talk of heavy beings apart from bodies.

For boundless compassion for all living beings is the firmest and most certain guarantee of moral good conduct and requires no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will certainly injure no one, infringe on no one, do no one harm, rather, forbear everyone, forgive everyone, help everyone as much as he can, and all his actions will carry the imprint of justice and loving kindness.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

We are nothing mankind is all

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.