Quotes about Humanity
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
— Peter Kreeft
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
— John Donne
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
— Ernest Hemingway
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people.
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
— Mark Twain
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
— A Powell Davies
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.