Quotes about Humanity
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.
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
— Barack Obama