Quotes About Humanity

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead face and find my living eyes. In his case, the life and death were reversed, and the flesh of his face was living ground, while his eyes were little monuments to lifelessness buried therein.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us

El claro de luna convierte al hombre más civilizado en un primitivo

The seven social evils are politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce and industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful

The spirit of man is more powerful than his own machines

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Byen var et uhyre, som uavbrutt fødte, oppløste og slukte nye mennesker.

Der Mensch lernt in der Katastrophe, menschlich zu leben, was er im Frieden nicht kann.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

OCTAVIA Mi van önben több, mint egy állatban? NEGRO DA PONTE A világ nagyszer?sége és iszonyata.

Ich fühle, wie ich langsam zu einem Mörder werde. Mein Glaube an die Humanität ist machtlos. Und weil ich es weiß, bin ich ein Säufer geworden.

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.

Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.

World history is tragic.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.