Quotes About Humanity

I've never met a soldier who knew he was a hero. It's not false modesty. They simply decide to do something that they know they must do, usually for there comrades, because if they don't, those people will suffer in some way. For them, that compulsion is far stronger than any fear. The fact we find it exceptional is a sad indictment of the human race. I'd like to live in a world of heroes. If we did, there would be no wars.

The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.

Kig-Yar didn't think like humans, though. They'd tried imperial culture once and decided it wasn't for them. Maybe they were right: humans were constantly in denial about their ape-sized social circles, always pretending they could think on a global scale when history proved every time that they really couldn't.

War is a vile thing, and it brings out the worst in beings. But it also brings out their best - courage, sacrifice, resourcefulness, tenacity, comradeship, genius, even humor. Would that we could achieve that enlightened state without shedding blood first.

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.

Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.

When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole.

You're supposed to be my lawyer." "You're supposed to be a human being

Existe gentileza em muitos lugares inesperados.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life; it was part of the human condition. How they struggled through adversity proved what kind of people they were.

Jeffrey standing in the rain, his coat collar turned up to the cold. "There was a cat in the road. It had been hit, and it was obviously dead." Tessa was silent, waiting. "And?" she prompted. "And he picked it up and moved it out of the road so that no one else would hit it.

Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.

Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history'

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

In fact, the proposition that man's species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.