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Quotes About Humanity

Only he will deserve the name of "man" and can count upon anything prepared for them from above, who has already acquired corresponding data for being able to preserve intact both the wolf and the sheep entrusted to his care.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Question 13 Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? Answer
~ G.I. Williamson
Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
~ G.M. Trevelyan
We are the many We bear luminous wounds We bear the possibility of love; also its real sweetness Its sound
~ Göran Sonnevi
Humans in the power of death looks no worthier than animal, cherish ur life!
~ Gabriel
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
You don't by chance believe that the war has killed all the halfwits? They belong to a race that will never die out. I'm sure there was a halfwit in Noah's Ark and he was the most prolific male on God's blessed raft!
~ Gabriel Chevallier
They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were no longer shockable. I shut my eyes; I had already seen far too much and I wanted to be able to forget eventually. This thing, this being, screamed in a corner like a maniac. The revulsion that turned our stomachs told us that it would be an act of generosity, a fraternal act, to finish him off.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
At this point in our planetary history, if we are simply to survive, we need to follow the law of unity between humanity and nature. If we keep trying to break the laws of nature, they will eventually break us.
~ Gabriel Cousens
But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.
~ Gabriel Josipovici
Binef?c?torii omenirii sunt cei care au imagina?ia r?ului altuia prin har,f?r? nevoia prealabil? a experiment?rii lui pe propria lui piele.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
Toate civiliza?iile care s-au dus de râp? au fost victima conjunc?iei letale dintre tic?lo?ie ?i ignoran??.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
Hasta donde se toca ambición se tiene tacto leal de hombre; cuando ya no se la toca, la criatura se vuelve nada menos que el santo y produce no sé que vértigo.
~ Gabriela Mistral
C'è chi cammina in mezzo a un popolo come in mezzo a una foresta d'alberi tutti eguali, indifferente; ma c'è qualcuno, continuamente ansioso, che cerca in ogni volto la muta risposta a una muta domanda. Per costui non ci sono su la terra stranieri.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise
~ Gabrielle Burton
How does every person not cry out all the time?
~ Gabrielle Calvocoressi
La paix a été aussi mauvaise que la guerre. La paix a tué autant d'hommes que la guerre. La paix es aussi mauvaise… aussi mauvaise…
~ Gabrielle Roy
It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain. Some stupid, vestigial part. The way humans have appendixes, even though they're pointless and mainly just a pain in the butt and people never even think about them unless they have to have them removed.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What a world. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
~ Gabrielle Zevin