Quotes about Humanity
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
— Stanley Hauerwas
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
— Pope John Paul II
The poorest people are the sweetest people.
— Denzel Washington
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human
— Reinhold Niebuhr
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
What we think of man and God, of sin and salvation, is partly prompted by the comparative comforts or discomforts in which we live. It is a very sobering reflection on the lack of transcendence of the human spirit over the flux of historical change.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.
— Rene Gutteridge
what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
— Richard Baxter
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr