Quotes About Humanity

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive.

There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every wrong and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty.

Progress makes purses out of human skin.

Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er meint er könnte den Menschen schlechter machen.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it. We must not as for more.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

It will for ever remain one of the greatest triumphs of Athenian democracy that it treated slaves humanely, and that in spite of the inhuman propaganda of philosophers like Plato himself and Aristotle it came, as he witnesses, very close to abolishing slavery.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.

Sosyal çevremizi, ?iddetten uzak ve bar??ç?l bir biçimde yap?land?rma arzusu, bir dü? de?ildir. Bu, insanl?k için ihtimal dahilinde olan ve biyolojik bak?? aç?s?ndan bak?ld???nda, ku?kusuz gerekli bir hedeftir.

Sonuç olarak daha iyi bir dünya aray???, ba?ka insanlar?n, bir dü?ünce u?runa ya?amlar?n? istemeyerek feda etmeyece?i bir dünya aray??? olmal?d?r.

Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking?—A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal around a table.

God bless you," Jeb said. "Not God. It's just people. People helping people. That's all we got.

The conditional programs inherently use poverty as a threat. That's Cruel. Shouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves?