Quotes About Humanity

Real friendship needed to have firm foundations laid before the conditions of everyday life had reached the extreme point beyond which human beings have nothing human about them except mistrust, anger, and lies.

La historia de la humanidad es la historia de su libertad [...] El progreso es, en esencia, progreso de la libertad humana.

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

Let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

he was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival -- death.

These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.

Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!

Reactionaries seek to excise and destroy the deepest and most essentially human aspects of a nation's character; they promulgate its most inhuman and superficial aspects. They prefer the husk to the kernel. When they promulgate nationalism, reactionaries try to destroy what people share at a deep level; they recognize only what people share at the most superficial level.

Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home—but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved...Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word "Man"?

Oggi come oggi ogni singolo uomo è tenuto, dinanzi alla sua coscienza, a suo figlio e a sua madre, dinanzi alla patria e al genere umano a rispondere con tutta la forza del cuore e della mente a una domanda: che cosa ha generato il razzismo? Che cosa bisogna fare affinché il nazismo, il fascismo, l'hitlerismo non abbiano a risorgere né al di qua né al di là dell'oceano, mai e poi mai, in secula seculorum?

Shargorodsky was a very gentle man, and quite helpless in any practical matter. He was the sort of man about whom people say, 'He's got the soul of a child,' or 'He's as kind as an angel.' And yet he could walk straight past a hungry child or a ragged old woman begging for crusts, feeling quite indifferent, still muttering his favourite lines of poetry.

Che potenza! Lo Stato contro l'uomo... Ora ti porta alle stelle, ora ti scaraventa in fondo a un burrone come se niente fosse».

Os campos de concentração tornaram-se cidades da Nova Europa. Cresciam e alargavam-se, com o seu traçado próprio, com as suas ruelas e praças, os seus hospitais, com as suas feiras da ladra, os seus crematórios e estádios.

When we look one another in the face, we're neither of us just looking at a face we hate - no, we're gazing into a mirror... Do you really not recognize yourselves into us...? (In The Testaments, Margaret Atwood)

But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. They just don't know how to reconcile love of humanity and love for an actual person.

Quando gli chiedevano perché si inerpicasse sulle macerie e cantasse a rischio della vita, Zubarev si limitava ad allargare le braccia. Forse voleva dimostrare non solo a se stesso e ai suoi compagni, ma anche al nemico, che chi distrugge deve comunque arrendersi di fronte alla bellezza della vita anche là dove il lezzo di cadavere ristagna giorno e notte.

Había pensado alguna vez Lenin mientras hacía la Revolución que no sólo Rusia no iba a seguir los pasos de la Europa socialista sino que además la esclavitud rusa escondida en ella iba a traspassar las fronteras y a convertirse en la antorcha que iluminara las nuevas vías de la humanidad?

In jedem menschlichen Wesen auf dieser weiten, komplizierten Welt ruht eine erstaunliche Anlage zur Größe. Doch nur selten haben diese verborgenen Gaben die Gelegenheit, sich zu entfalten. Manchmal ist es allein der Zufall des Schicksals.

People are not resources that you consume.

The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.

Victor Davis Hanson

Bun?tatea uman? poate fi g?sit? în orice grup, chiar È™i în cele pe care e uÈ™or s? le condamni în întregul lor.