Human - Humanity Quotes

We should not discount Jean-Luc Picard yet. He is human – and humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them. (Commander Sela, “Redemption”)

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

Mankind owes its existence to about 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it usually rains.

If only we could all accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

Humankind arrives as billions of seeds filled with hope; in the end, almost all die as manure for others.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Those who insist that all things are knowable and that men and women act rationally have been on one side of the stadium of mankind for centuries, while the opposing bleachers have been filled by those who insist that even the light of reason casts dark shadows and that man’s nature is never fully knowable. […]

Humans are, by nature, a forward-looking species always seeking greater levels of happiness and satisfaction. Unfortunately, the corollary is that humans are all too often willing to grasp at unrealistic promises of a better life or to believe that a better life can only be attained by clinging to intolerance and ignorance, by lessening the […]

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

No human thing is of serious importance.