Quotes About Humanity

What I really wanted just then was to put Georgie in cold storage. It is unfortunate that other human beings cannot be conveniently immobilized.

A human being hardly ever thinks about other people.

With strong magnetic force the human heart is drawn to consolation; and even grieving becomes consolation in the end.

I wanted to drag us all down into some common pool of feeling, I wanted to stop this conventional machine of awful insincere politeness.

To be good is just never to lose it. How does evil begin in a life? How can it begin? Yet we were there once.

We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?

We're all sinners. We all hurt each other just by existing.

There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?

The great evil, the dreadful evil, that which made war and slavery and all man's inhumanity to man lay in the cool self-justifying ruthless selfishness of quite ordinary people, such as Biranne, and himself.

A human being is a morass, a swamp, a jungle.

I tasted injustice and the special horror of seeing its perpetrators flourish. How frequent and how bitter is this aspect of human wretchedness. The wicked prosper in front of our eyes and go on and on and on prospering. What a blessing it must have been once to be able to believe in hell. A great and deep human consolation was lost to us when that ancient and respectable belief faded from our minds.

We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.

There's only one thing the matter and that's everything.

How did it make you feel?

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world.

Es bueno que la gente vea películas de guerra. Si todo el mundo viera películas de guerra, sabría que la guerra está mal y dejaría de luchar. Lo que sí está mal es que hay demasiadas películas de paz. Por eso la gente no puede ver con sus propios ojos que la guerra está mal.

Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade por omissão, por não fazer nada porque não me importo com ninguém o suficiente pra intervir e tal, com exceção das pessoa que eu conheço bem . Por que não consigo me importar com todo mundo do jeito que me importo com quem eu conheço?

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

We are giving the world back to man, and man back to himself. Man shall no longer be vile, but noble. We shall not destroy his mind in return for an immortal soul. Without a free, vigorous and creative mind, man is but an animal, and he will die like an animal, without any shred of a soul. We return to man his arts, his literature, his sciences, his independence to think and feel as an individual, not to be bound to dogma like a slave, to rot in his chains.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

We are all are cripples in some way. [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]

Život je putovanje od kolevke do groba; svi idemo istim putem, bilo kra?im ili dužim. Ali potrebno je samo jedno: da usput volimo.

Cruelty is a child of ignorance, and someday men will stop judging and condemning each other. I am really more interested in this than anything else; I wish I could make the world kinder and more humane than it is.