Quotes About Humanity

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.

It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all.

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

But perhaps the most overlooked feature of her life was that she was human, and therefore fallible.

I'll call you. Take care. And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen, I say, ... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.

Die Menschen bestanden in erster Linie aus Staub, und ich verstand nicht, warum es besser sein sollte, all diesen Staub zu verarzten, als Gedichte zu schreiben, an die sich die Leute erinnerten und die sie sich aufsagten, wenn sie unglücklich oder krank waren oder nicht schlafen konnten.

Pazar - doktorlar?n cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz k?y?s?nda, doktorlar metresleriyle birlikte, doktorlar kar?lar?yla birlikte, doktorlar kilisede, doktorlar yatlar?nda, doktorlar her yerde, kesinlikle doktor deÄŸil, bugün yaln?zca insan.

different as the animal with the touch of human hands about him when he returns to the herd

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

I hope there's something wrong me. Because if there isn't something wrong me it means there's something wrong with the world. That's terrifying. So I'd like to think there's something wrong with me that can be made right.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. - Burnt Norton

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

Burning a book's like burning a human being. Once yer start burning books, yer end up burning the entire world, every damn human being in it!

Is this what I had come to: the inability to trust even my best friend? If human beings cannot have faith in other human beings, despite all their mutual failures, then can they ever have faith in the Almighty, I wondered.

Ich hätte nicht geglaubt, dass es auf dieser Erde noch jemanden gibt, der den Mut hat, neue Menschen in die Welt zu setzen.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.