Quotes About Humanity

If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Fighting for the freedom of one's people is not the only necessity. As long as the fight goes on you must enlighten not only the people but also, and above all, yourself on the full measure of man. You must retrace the paths of history, the history of man damned by other men, and initiate, bring about, the encounter between your own people and others.

Desperto um belo dia no mundo e me atribuo um único direito: exigir do outro um comportamento humano. Um único dever: o de nunca, através de minhas opções, renegar minha liberdade.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Oui, comme on le voit, en faisant appel à l'humanité, au sentiment de la dignité, à l'amour, à la charité, il nous serait facile de prouver ou de faire admettre que le Noir est l'égal du Blanc. Mais notre but est tout autre : ce que nous voulons, c'est aider le Noir à se libérer de l'arsenal complexuel qui a germé au sein de la situation coloniale. M.

Voici des siècles que l'Europe a stoppé la progression des autres hommes et les a asservis à ses desseins et à sa gloire ; des siècles qu'au nom d'une prétendue "aventure spirituelle" elle étouffe la quasi-totalité de l'humanité. Regardez-la aujourd'hui basculer entre la désintégration atomique et la désintégration spirituelle/

The fundamental duel between which seemed to be that between colonialism and anti-colonialism, and indeed between capitalism and socialism, is already losing some of its importance. What counts today, the question which is looming on the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.

We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them.

No leader, no matter how valuable he may be, can substitute himself for the popular will; and the national government, before concerning itself about international prestige, ought first to give back their dignity to all citizens, fill their minds and feast their eyes with human things, and create a prospect that is human because human consciousness and sovereign men dwell therein.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Der Weg der neuen Bildung geht von Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

So humanity is not the helpless plaything of a dead mechanism, but its development consists precisely in the growing power of the human mind over the dead mechanism of nature. But - and this is only said by historical materialism - the human spirit develops from, with and out of the material mode of production. The human mind is not the father of the mode of production, but the mode of production is the mother of the human mind.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Il giorno della mia nascita, i tre personaggi destinati a devastare l'umanità erano già venuti al mondo: Hitler aveva diciotto anni, Stalin ventotto e Mao tredici. Ero cascata nel secolo sbagliato. Il loro.

Nos hemos convertido en un caso de manual: la única especie animal, junto con la rata topo, que extermina a sus propios individuos.

A nuestra especie no le queda más remedio que cambiar de actitud: efectivamente, como ya lo decía San Francisco de Asís, los animales son hermanos nuestros; vamos a tener que darles otro trato. Nada podrá detener esa revolución de mentalidad que ya está en marcha.

Charles Patterson resume en una frase que triunfa y escandaliza: "Auschwitz empieza cuando un hombre ve un matadero y dice: solo son animales".

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

Küçücük bir dünyada büyük insanlar olarak kalmak m? istiyoruz, yoksa uçsuz bucaks?z bir dünyada küçük insanlar olmak m??

patients judge their experience by the way they are treated as a person, not by the way they are treated for their disease.