Quotes about Humanity

Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7

They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.

Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.

It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?

Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.