Quotes about Humanity

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

What we think of man and God, of sin and salvation, is partly prompted by the comparative comforts or discomforts in which we live. It is a very sobering reflection on the lack of transcendence of the human spirit over the flux of historical change.

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.

It is almost impossible to fall in love with majesty, power, or perfection. These make us fearful and codependent, but seldom truly loving. On some level, love can only happen between equals, and vulnerability levels the playing field. What Christians believe is that God somehow became our equal when he became the human Jesus, a name that is, without doubt, the vulnerable name for God.