Quotes About Humanity

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not-unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom.

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come; though they bring all Ireland and her miseries with them. For the whole world is the patrimony of the whole world; there is no telling who does not own a stone in the Great Wall of China.

Tell me, Briny," Natalie said, "are you still having fun?" He looked around at the noisy, crowded, evil-smelling ward, where the Polish women were helplessly bringing new life into a city which was being dynamited to death by the Germans, going through unpostponable birth pangs with the best care the dying city could give them. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys.

All the corpses must be brought back from the work site for the evening roll call, since the count of living and dead has to match the number of men who left in the morning, to establish that nobody has escaped Auschwitz except by dying.

But war is no respecter of limits, it is by definition harsh and inhuman, and there is no preparing for it.

And my revulsion wasn't against your religion, but all religions. They're all more or less alike. You can't blame the human race for preferring some bright storyteller's dream or other to the black cold meaningless dark of the real universe.

he now knew the difference between honest fright and animal terror. One was bearable, human, not incapacitating; the other was moral castration.

War has always been violent blindman's buff, played with men's lives and nations' resources. But the time for it is over. As the race has outgrown human sacrifice, human slavery, and duelling, it has to outgrow war.

The British criminals responsible for dropping bombs on women and little children would soon have to face the bar of justice.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deacesed inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanities.

I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

humans and prosperity never endure side by side for long.

For it was not a god invading Greece, but a man; and no man now existed or ever would exist who was not liable to misfortune from the day of his birth— and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. Their invader therefore, being only human, was bound to fall from his glory.

Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres, y en aquella los padres a los hijos.

When a child is born to them, his relatives sit around and him and grieve over all the evils he will have to endure later, recounting all the things humans must suffer. But when someone dies, they have fun and take pleasure in burying him in the ground, reciting over him all the evils he has escaped and how he is now in a state of complete bliss.

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History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.

Da netko želi, mogao bi navesti razloge za samoubojstvo ljudskog roda. ?ovjek nastoji susti?i vlastite razorne strojeve.

Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the Human Race in Scorn.

It's kinda cool to think about you as a real person, instead of some fetus ghost.

In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.