Quotes About Humanity

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

When you're a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, and if you are at all intelligent you realize that you have lost something. But I think there has always been this dichotomy in a real writer. He wants to be terribly human, and he responds emotionally, but at the same time there's this cold observer who cannot cry.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

Everyone is trying to believe in something these days, and they forget that miracles happen every day when we truly acknowledge the humanity of another or just have a simple, pure conversation with someone else.

For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability.

Idiot,si nuk e paske mesuar se armiku me i madh i njeriut eshte vetvetja? Si s'e ditke ti se nga tjetri ka gjase te shpetosh,por nga vetvetja kurre?

Jews know hard days like the rest of us. Yes, Jews suffered — it's part of being human... Jews did not suffer more than any other comparable group of people. Jews as a rule belonged to the exploiting classes; that is why the Jewish Quarter is located next to the Royal palaces in Seville and Paris.

As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

?ini mi se kad bi ljudi znali, koliko je za mene napor bio živeti, oprostili bi mi lakše sve zlo što sam po?inio i sve dobro što sam propustio da u?inim, i još bi im ostalo malo ose?anja da me požale.