Quotes About Humanity

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continously happy in it.

In there, she said, humanity was a book without a cover.

And of course I started to cry. Not for myself strangely enough, though I am sure I could have, with capital and interest, but no, not for myself. For my mother? Who can really itemise the cause of our human tears?

They stood there two feet apart in all that vale of tears, one man asking another how he was, the other asking how the other was, the one not knowing truly what the world was, the other not knowing either. One nodded to the other now in an expression of understanding without understanding, of saying without breathing a word. And the other nodded back to the other, knowing nothing. Not this new world of terminality and astonishing dismay, of extremity of ruin and exaggeration of misery.

Whitemen in the main just see slaves and Indians. They don't see the single souls. How all are emperors to those that love them.

A human person finds a little medicine in another's sadness. So I found. But it's not so strange because the world is mysterious anyhow.

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

Jeder Mensch trägt die Fähigkeit des Tötens in sich. Jeder hat einen Punkt, an dem er zerbricht. Zum Glück gibt es nur wenige, die die Skrupellosigkeit besitzen, diesen psychischen Nullpunkt bei anderen zu finden.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it's a dangerous waste of time because they're both right. ... If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

She does not see that he is old. She only sees his eyes, his eyes.

Pois quem não sente bater o coração, nem de tristeza nem de alegria, não pode ser considerado um verdadeiro ser humano.

Here's what I think: there are neither major nor minor tragedies. Tragedies exist. Some can be described. There are others for which every heart is too small. Those kind cannot fit in the heart.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.