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Quotes About Humanity

There are no good or bad people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
~ Tennessee Williams
I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.
~ Tennessee Williams
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.
~ Tennessee Williams
Cu toÅ£ii suntem cobai în laboratorul lui Dumnezeu. Umanitatea nu-i decât o invenÅ£ie aflat? în plin? formare.
~ Tennessee Williams
Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
~ Tennessee Williams
Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think... The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow.
~ Tennessee Williams
Humanity is just a work in progress.
~ Tennessee Williams
The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of becoming.
~ Terence E. Fretheim
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
~ Terence McKenna
Human history is a Gaian dream.
~ Terence McKenna
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
~ Terence McKenna
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
~ Terence McKenna
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
~ Terence McKenna
We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
~ Terence McKenna
I am . . . sure that the answer to all of the mysteries that disequilibrate our view of the world are to be understood by looking within ourselves. When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
~ Terence McKenna
Creo que la antipatía es un sentimiento caprichoso y superficial que en el fondo no existe ni tiene razón de ser. En realidad casi nadie es antipático. Si se considera a las personas muy de cerca y se penetra con bondad en la esencia de su psicología, acabamos por admirar sus cualidades y tolerar sus defectos
~ Teresa de la Parra
Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
~ Teresa of Avila
Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?
~ Terry Bisson
Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?
~ Terry Bisson
Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn't find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.
~ Terry Brooks
What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.
~ Terry Brooks
Believe me, Kinson, the potensial for evil lodges deep in every man, myself included. We restrain it better, keep it buried deeper, but it lives within us.
~ Terry Brooks
Los gobiernos centrales siempre han constituido uno de los mayores peligros para la humanidad.
~ Terry Brooks
People are strange creatures, and they don't always have a clear eye toward how things stand.
~ Terry Brooks