A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.