Quotes about Humanity

This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.

I will criticize individuals when they deserve criticism, but I will not condemn entire populations. We have seen where that leads.

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can't feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, "Why do we have to feel pain?" to "What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.

For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.