Quotes About Humanity

Out of the whirling womb of time come millions of men and their feet crowd the earth and they cut one another's throats for room to stand and among them all are not two thumbs alike.

There is only one child in the world and the child's name is all children.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights," Pearl wrote. "Though the mind has gone away, though he cannot speak or communicate with anyone, the human stuff is there, and he belongs to the human family.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

Our own lineage split off from that of chimpanzees roughly seven million years ago.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.

In this world, we should treat everyone kindly as far as it is possible, that we ourselves may be treated kindly when we need it.

También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».

When man fell to his knees he became the asshole he is today.

Are you angry at me, don Juan? I asked when he returned. He seemed surprised at my question. No! I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Therefore, anthropology, the study of man, should be the core of every other discipline. Someday, it will.

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

what sort of technology is this that can send a man to the moon but can't put a piece of bread on every human being's table?" "Perhaps the problem doesn't lie in the technology, but in those who decide how to make use of it," I suggested.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

If you think you're the only person for whom life is painful, you're wrong. And if you don't mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don't see why?

Sometimes one forgets that not everyone in this world is a bastard.

We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans.