Quotes About Humanity

For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.

We are sons and daughters of the Most High and maturing in tenderness to the extent that we are for others--all others--to the extent that no human flesh is strange to us, to the extent that we can touch the hand of another in love, to the extent that for us there are no "others.

You are not the only one," he said to himself. "At this moment, in Europe, you are not the only man forcing himself to walk round a cell. Not by a long chalk. So drop all your self-pity. You are lucky compared to some.

People like me who have never suffered—I mean in the way the people of Korytów and all the other millions of Poles are suffering—can afford to be broad-minded. You and the people who have really suffered must think people like me are not only smug, but callous." "Only if you tell us that it is wrong to hate

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

It is easy to forgive the innocent. It is the guilty who test our morality. People are more than the worst thing they have ever done.

Er zal pas sprake zijn van emancipatie, wanneer het niet meer kan gebeuren dat mensen (mannen noch vrouwen) object zijn van begeerte-zonder-genegenheid of van gevoel-zonder-inzicht, van welke benadering dan ook zonder respect voor de persoon.

Photography is the only language understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influence - where people are free - it reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind.

The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.

I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment of glass from a mirror.

Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when we die for the people, it is an honorable death. Nevertheless we should do our best to avoid unnecessary casualties. Mao Zedong, 1944

Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme.

A dead black man—nothing to bother about.

Even as a ten-year-old, the incident made it clear to me that people are never completely what we believe they are. Including me. There is always something unexpected within those we meet, those we think we have got to know.

A lo largo de la historia, muy pocas personas han podido dedicarse sin más a algo distinto de sobrevivir. Cierto es que nunca han podido hacerlo tantas como hoy. Pero aun así la mitad de la humanidad, como mínimo, vive hoy sin opciones.

Siempre me reafirmaba en la idea de que el ser humano es un ser narrante. Más Homo narrans que Homo sapiens.

En los relatos de los otros nos vemos a nosotros mismos. Toda obra de arte sincera contiene un fragmento pequeñísimo de un espejo.

El hecho de que hayamos desarrollado la capacidad intelectual guarda relación, lógicamente, con la supervivencia. En último término, lo único que queremos es sobrevivir. Queremos vivir, no morir. Cada vez que veo a una persona rebuscando en los contenedores de basura veo ante mí ese sencillo axioma: queremos vivir. A cualquier precio.

Existe una suerte de denominador común entre todas las grandes civilizaciones y culturas clásicas: para quienes vivían en ellas, todas eran inmortales.

The people in the refugee camp, so varied in their language, dress, and terrible experiences -- imparted through a look or sometimes words -- had only this in common: nothing to look forward to.

La barbarie ha sempre dei connotati umani, pensò. È questo che rende la barbarie così disumana. L'aveva letto da qualche parte.

Hän oli kysynyt hintaani. En ollut vastannut, koska ihmisellä ei voi olla hintaa.