Quotes about Humanity

The destiny of people cannot be reduced to a sociological or scientific formula; it contains mysterious, if not mystical factors.

Do you know what that means? 'Man of God.' An odd name, isn't it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only men. There are no real angels. And men? Oh, there are men, all right, unfortunately for the angels and for ourselves. And what is worse is that they are real.

I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.

Judge God. He created the universe and made justice stem from injustices. He brought it about that a people should attain happiness through tears, that the freedom of a nation, like that of a man, should be a monument built upon a pile, a foundation of dead bodies…

When you give bread to a beggar we give him that taste of paradise which only the poor can savor.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." ? Elie Wiesel

I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.

Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.

How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.