Quotes About Humanity

If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We'd view it as a great perversion of natural law—but we wouldn't deny it.

Cuando aceptamos que la violencia la comete gente que mira y actúa como el resto de nosotros, silenciamos la voz de la negación, la voz que susurra: "Este tipo no parece un asesino".

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, "If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you're doing it." After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, "Ah, you wouldn't be worth it." "We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

It seems abstract when you're dealing with people online, but they are still people, and some of them are not nice people, not the kind you ever want to be in a room with." Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

And they seem to forget that you are a mere mortal; flesh and bone, bruisable and scare-able.

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. . Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place --- that there is something so human and expressive about it.

Irkç?l?k zamanla de?i?en bir ?ey de?ildir, hep vard?r. Bu ba?lamda iyi insan olabilmenin çok önemli oldu?unu dü?ünüyorum. Sence insanlar iyi bir insan olarak do?up sonradan ?rkç?l?k gibi hasta bir fikre saplanarak m? kötü oldular, yoksa zaten do?u?tan kötü olup sadece iyi olabilmek için fazlas?yla çaba m? harc?yorlar?

Shakespeare trascends language

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

De geschiedenis van de holocaust zit onder de vingerafdrukken van de moderniteit, van de maakbare maatschappij

Geen orde zonder pek en teer

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Buffo come siano semplici i desideri umani quando si è perso tutto.

Life isn't about what you gain; it's about what you give.

Original Sin has great marketing potential.

Lutheran spirituality begins with the insight that all human effort to reach God is futile. The will, to use Luther's term, is in bondage—not only can we not fulfill the moral law perfectly, on the deepest level, we do not want to.

It is an unfortunate fact that no one has yet invented a Geiger counter which we can place over a man's heart and get a good read out of what he is really like inside. Time and time alone can accomplish that.

God did not have—but wanted very much to have—men and women who would live in pain. God wanted a broken vessel.