Quotes about Humanity

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.