Quotes About Humanity

Varian had to remind himself that these were not merely political ciphers, nor scrawled signatures, nor ghostly photographic images; they were human beings, real men and women whose genius placed them at risk, who were in peril, in concentration camps, in hiding, or worse, living in plain view, ignorant to the threat of their own lives.

If every member of the human race evinced a fondness for literature and even a moderate level of dexterity with the written word, I would be a happier, if not more well-adjusted, man.

She drained the pasta and looked out the window over the sink. In the middle of the street, paying no attention whatsoever to oncoming cars, two little boys were jousting with hockey sticks while riding bicycles, their mother observing through a fog of cigarette smoke and a beer. Human beings, Janet thought, were a disappointment.

Despite the French passage of the Taubira Law in 2001, which recognized slavery and the slave trade as a crime against humanity, the French continued to believe they were never as bad as the Americans.

l'esclavage.

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

A veces uno amanece con ganas de extinguirse… Como si fuéramos velitas sobre un pastel de alguien inapetente. A veces nos arden terriblemente los labios y los ojos y nuestras narices se hinchan y somos horribles y lloramos y queremos extinguirnos… Así es la vida, un constante querer apagarse y encenderse.

Vos me dirás que aquí hay grandes poetas, y es cierto. Yo he dicho que la poesía no es un mérito humano, sino una fatalidad que se padece. Aquí hay un buen montón de hombres atacados de poesía, mientras que te invito a que me recuentes los creadores activos, es decir, los inteligentes.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Lo que pasa – dijo la Maga, revolviendo la leche sobre el calentador – es que la felicidad es solamente de uno y en cambio la desgracia pareciera de todos.

nada puede curarnos mejor del antropocentrismo autor de todos nuestros males que asomarse a la física de lo infinitamente grande (o pequeño).

Hago cosas que me quitan un poco el mal gusto del vacío. Y esa en el fondo es la mejor definición de homo sapiens." No es una definición sino un consuelo, dijo Gregorovius suspirando

Como magullados, sensibles al tacto; en un momento nos dimos la mano y fue terrible.

Los ojos son las unicas manos que nos van quedanso a unos cuantos, bonita

Es terrible que un hombre sin grandeza alguna se tire de esa manera contra la pared. Nos denuncia a todos con el choque de sus huesos, nos hace trizas con la primera frase de su música.

Los ojos son las únicas manos que nos van quedando a unos cuantos, bonita

Eu quero escrever o romance do nada. Eu quero mostrar a mais secreta das suspeitas humanas: a de sua própria inutilidade.

El desaparesido kreía en la bida futura. Si lo konfirmó, ke aya en eya la felisidad ke, aunke kon distintas karakterísticas, anelamos todos los umanos.

we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.

a comfortable consumer civilization of socialized human animals, aided by all the discoveries of science and industry and reproducing demographically in a squirming, catastrophic crescendo.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

I had not given a thought to what a difference it can make when you treat another person with simple respect and dignity, the same respect and dignity you want for yourself. That is so simple, yet so few seem able to do it.