John Chrysostom Quotes

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

I'm only human.

People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.

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

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small. The priest begs God for grace, and the king begs something for something. Sometimes he begs the people for loyalty, sometimes he begs God to forgive him

Fill the seats of justice With good men, not so absolute in goodness As to forget what human frailty is.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.