Quotes about Humanity
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...
— John Donne
The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.
— William Faulkner
Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.
— Hannah More
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
— Hans Kung
God creates only one world. Human beings have spoilt the Creator's work, the Son has redeemed the old creation through his Cross, the Spirit has sanctified it. This one world will be enough for God in eternity, and for us, whom he has created, redeemed, and sanctified, this God will be enough.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.
— Harold S. Kushner
I will criticize individuals when they deserve criticism, but I will not condemn entire populations. We have seen where that leads.
— Harold S. Kushner
Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)
— Harold S. Kushner
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
— Harold S. Kushner
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can't feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, "Why do we have to feel pain?" to "What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?
— Harold S. Kushner