Quotes About Humanity

views on Hector v. Achilles and cannot agree. Hector is what man can strive to become; Achilles

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.

As Shantideva writes in this beautiful prayer: As long as space endures As long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I too remain To dispel the miseries of the world.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

Let humanity be the other name for religion.

peace is the ultimate goal of all religions but even at the end of this century we continue to see how religion is the cause of much strife, bloodshed and disgrace among human beings. Nothing but the flag of religion can crush human beings and humane emotions so completely.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

Quand ces enfant sont arrivés à Auschwitz, on n'opéra pas de 'selection'. On ne les mit pas en rang avec les hommes et les femmes. On ne regarda pas qui était en bonne santé, qui était malade, qui pouvait travailler, qui ne le pouvait pas. On les envoya directement dans les chambres à gaze.

packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget!

On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13,152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d'Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget!

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.

How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?

Los hombres desean que sus héroes sean perfectos, cosa tan laudable como poco realista.

So long as we hold hatred for anyone," said Mr. Chisholm, marveling at his new thoughts, "we are not men at all. We are beasts. It is against the dignity of men that we should hate. It is against the ordinances of God.

Se dice que Dios ama la modestia de los hombres pero los humanos la desprecian.

La vida es la más peligrosa de las experiencias, el mundo el más peligroso de los lugares y el hombre el más peligroso de los animales.

En medio del desorden la ley debe prevalecer o la humanidad perecerá.

Un hombre no debe ser enteramente del mundo, a menos que pierda su alma, ni debe ser enteramente del espíritu, a menos que pierda su humanidad.

Guárdate de la ira del hombre bueno, pues es como el rayo que puede destruir una ciudad». Sin embargo, dejémosle que viva. Lo necesitamos como máscara.

Las guerras originan guerras, como las cigarras crían cigarras y siempre habrá hombres ambiciosos.