Quotes about Humanity
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
— Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?
— Frank Herbert
Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.
— Frank Herbert
Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.
— Frank Herbert
Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.
— Frank Herbert
Being tolerant does mean accepting the fact that every person is created in the image of Almighty God and that we each have a soul that will live for eternity.
— Franklin Graham
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
— Henri Nouwen
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
— Mother Teresa