Quotes About Humanity

Well, love exists even you are muted and one another is blind

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.

I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity..." #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion

Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.

Unselfishness.

I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

Todos os desejos negativos não são nada exceto frustrações de desejos positivos. Eles são inspirados por alguma forma de derrota, fracasso ou negligência por parte dos seres humanos em se adaptarem às leis da natureza de forma positiva.

Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.

Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism (how things are), we have been blaming the world for not fitting the beds of "rational" models, have tried to change humans to fit technology, fudged our ethics to fit our needs for employment, asked economic life to fit the theories of economists, and asked human life to squeeze into some narrative.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

We are social animals; hell is other people.

you'd even rather have a failed real person than a successful one, as blemishes, scars, and character flaws increase the distance between a human and a ghost.

Once in a while you encounter members of the human species with so much intellectual superiority that they can change their minds effortlessly.

So we are a little better than animals, after all—but perhaps not by much.

We humans scorn what is not concrete. We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than by thousands of people dying elsewhere that do not make it into our dining room. The one case is a tragedy, the other a statistic.

Stay human, take as much as you can, under the condition that you give more than you take.

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.

on how human nature knows no upper bound, as if to punish itself.

that slavery is more widespread than anticipated

My problem is that I'm not rational.

Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.