Humanity Quotes

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. ...

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was th...

He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, it...

I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years ...

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German...

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence f...

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universa...

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in whi...

But human beings must suffer, and must make suffering for themselves, and beat themselves up into sp...

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged...

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, a...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to ...

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think...

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again...

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fe...

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had n...

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to...

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. ...

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think th...

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.

And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally sh...

There is never a bad time for a pun. There’s also never really a good time for a pun. You might as w...

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you es...

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten...

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act l...

Humanity is the Son of God.

He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari...

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. ...

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as thi...

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had th...

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what ...

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case ...

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consi...

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made...

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautiou...

Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human pe...

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someon...

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might th...

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an...

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiet...

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at lea...

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I ...

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a ...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garmen...

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

God save us from people who mean well.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. ...

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

Life, how I have dreaded you," said Rhoda, "oh, human beings, how I have hated you! How you have nud...

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us ...

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be...

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardo...

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not ...

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into...

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark,And the living nations wait,Each sequestered...

Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, th...

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, th...

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering ...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...