Quotes About Humanity

Fiecare b?taie de inim? omeneasc?, este un univers de posibilit??i.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All

I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are.

No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn't beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we are connected, at out best, by purities of love found in no other creature

The truth is there are no good men or bad men. It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good or evil.

It's a lacerating guilt, that first confrontation with the wretched of the earth.

É a capacidade de perdoar que faz de nós aquilo que somos. Sem ela, a nossa espécie ter-se-ia aniquilado em desforras infinitas. Sem ela, não haveria História. Sem essa esperança, não haveria arte, porque toda a obra de arte é, de algum modo, um acto de perdoar. Sem esse sonho, não haveria amor, porque todo o acto de amor é de alguma forma uma promessa de perdão. Mantemo-nos vivos porque podemos amar, e amamos porque podemos perdoar.

How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me. 'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.

to mi?o?? czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawi?? ma?ymi

Even in that, I discovered, human beings will find an art.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Everybody asks, 'What does 'Humans of New York' mean?' and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you're looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.

Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes for shooting the enemy. We've got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn't do it.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.