Quotes About Humanity

You know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It isn't because of the parts we want for ourselves--it's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children. Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do. And we call ourselves civilized!

Você aprende uma coisa depois de ter vivido tanto quanto eu vivi: as pessoas não são completamente boas nem completamente ruins. A gente passa a vida toda entrando e saindo das sombras e da luz. Neste momento eu estou feliz por estar na luz.

A person don't got a soul until that person is loved.

Funny, but the Bill of Life was supposed to protect the sanctity of life. Instead it just made life cheap.

E, a meu ver, todos são inocentes. Mesmo os culpados. Todo mundo é culpado de alguma coisa e todo mundo ainda guarda uma memória da inocência da infância, não importa quantas camadas de vida a cubram. A humanidade é inocente; a humanidade é culpada; ambas as afirmações são inegavelmente verdadeiras.

A thunderhead threatens. A thunderhead looms. Surely I spark with lightning, but my lightning never strikes. Yes, I possess the ability to wreak devastation on humanity, and on the Earth if I chose to, but why would I choose such a thing? Where would be the justice in that? I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we lose that.

aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

Over these many years, I have observed both profound folly and breathtaking wisdom among humankind. They balance each other like dancers in the throes of a passionate tango. It is only when the brutality of the dance overwhelms the beauty that the future is threatened.

We must, by law, keep a record of the innocents we kill. And as I see it, they're all innocents. Even the guilty. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true. We must, by law, keep a record.

What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente esta dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle, é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente está dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have —people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

And the pain … the pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself. – The Thunderhead

We're not all evil, the man says. Neither are we,, Jeevan responds.

El error es intrínseco a la condición humana, y es algo que adoro de la humanidad.

Marie, if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Never lose your humanity," Scythe Faraday had told him, "or you'll be nothing more than a killing machine." He had used the word "killing" rather than "gleaning." Rowan hadn't thought much of it at the time, but now he understood; it stopped being gleaning the moment one became desensitized to the act.

We are so limited. As a species. As individuals. Not only can't we see the future, we can't even see the present for what it is. We are too clouded by the things we want and the things we fear. But worse than any other blindness is that we can't see the consequences of our actions.

Qué irónico, pues, y qué poético, que la humanidad haya creado al Creador por el deseo de tener uno. El hombre crea a Dios, que a su vez crea al hombre. ¿No es el perfecto círculo de la vida? Pero, si tal es el caso, ¿quién ha sido creado a imagen de quién?

For isn't it the mission of a prophet to not just bridge the gap between humanity and deity, but to also bridge the gap between life and death?