Quotes about Humanity
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
— Albert Schweitzer
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.
— Francine Rivers
So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. JESUS, MATTHEW 7 : 12
— Francine Rivers
Do you really think God's plan will collapse over the frailties of one man's temper?
— Francine Rivers
Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.
— Francine Rivers
Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7
— Francine Rivers
They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.
— Francine Rivers
Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.
— Francine Rivers
There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
— Frank Herbert
Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.
— Frank Herbert
It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.
— Frank Herbert