Quotes About Humanity

Whatever people do, right up to killing, nature absorbs it, closes over the fissure and goes on about its own doings. He can't tell whether this is a comforting thing or a melancholy one.

So far, you've only seen what bad luck can do to people. You're about to take your first good look at what people can do to each other. Believe me: not the same thing.

learned a long time ago never to underestimate the spectacular natural wonder that is people's stupidity.

She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.

Cal reached the point a long time ago where those words make him tired for all of humanity. All the innocents say that, and believe it to the bone, right up until the moment when they can't any more. My husband would never do that to our children, my baby ain't no thief. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.

Murder is nature. Hadn't you noticed that? People maiming each other, raping each other, killing each other, doing all the stuff that animals do: that's nature in action. Nature is the devil I'm fighting, chum. Nature is my worst enemy. If it isn't yours, then you're in the wrong fucking gig.

Pale beauty stands aghast," he said, "at the vulgar ugliness of men.

It was men like that, she decided, that made her eternally grateful to be a woman! She didn't know why Harlan was so obsessed with discovering primitive man. All he had to do was look about him: In Sophie's estimation, mankind had not progressed very far!

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Everyone should be impeached," Ellen said. "For being so bad at living.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

The poet Longfellow writes, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don't experience them as feeling beings, we not only ignore them, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! … The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Rumi

This means accepting our human existence and all of life as it is. Imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing.

Although the trance of feeling separate and unworthy is an inherent part of our conditioning as humans, so too is our capacity to awaken

we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Gandhi said that we have enough resources for the need of us all, but not for the greed of us all," he recited. "And this is Thomas Kocherry's quotation: 'The life of the planet, and the dependent health of humanity, cannot be sacrificed for the greed of a few.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti.

We have to watch the world, and watch ourselves, with the humility of those who know, in the very depths of their being, that learning to become human is a process that never ends.

Leçon: Ne jamais réduire l'autre à la perception que l'on peut en avoir, à ses problèmes, à sa pauvreté ou à ses crises.

Those who did that thing were human beings, na. We should ask ourselves why human beings behave in such a way. Otherwise nothing can change. (Mommy-Ji)