Quotes about Humanity

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.

Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.

One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

7th July, 1871.—I was annoyed by a woman frequently beating a slave near my house, but on my reproving her she came and apologized. I told her to speak softly to her slave, as she was now the only mother the girl had;