Quotes about Humanity

One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm still the same bitch and fake. Clear me out of the way.

Writing is a form of therapy… Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.