Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Andrea Dworkin

Touch is the meaning of being human.

David Coverdale

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

George Bernard Shaw

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Ernest Cline

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Jean Anouilh

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Mariella Frostrup

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

John Irving

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.