Quotes About Humanity

I would say that if you're human, creating a space where you can regularly check in with yourself, refocus on what really matters, and then have that as the focus of action is invaluable.

Man is an endangered species.

Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.

She wasn't afraid of him anymore. They weren't a centuries-old hunter and a seventeen-year-old human girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Damon and Bonnie, who had to do the best they could.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

For a moment, without thinking of anything else, Jenny was simply proud of him. Fiercely, passionately proud that a human, a seventeen-year-old who hadn't even heard of the Shadow Men until a month ago, could stand up to them like this. Could conceal his terror and smile that way and offer to die.

What kind of world is it that lets a thing like that happen? That lets a girl like Sue get murdered for kicks, or kids in Afghanistan starve, or baby seals get skinned alive? -Matt Honeycutt

The world is filled with humans, and as soon as one dies, another appears. What does it matter if I relieve one wretched soul of its misery?

Some people, you would think, are made up of nothing but title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners.

Only great men have great faults.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

Somos todos miseráveis e devastados, mas poucos homens são capazes de encarar o próprio abismo.

Soyez un ivrogne de magnificences et de sublimités morales et titubez sur le genre humain

Une minute vient de s'écouler. Cela fait environ cent morts et cent nouveau-nés de plus. Une centaine de vagissements et une centaine de derniers soupirs. Le calcul est fait depuis longtemps. Le compte est exact. C'est la balance du grouillement de l'humanité. Dans une heure, il y aura six mille cadavres sous votre lit et six mille petits enfants, tout autour de vous, pleureront par lierre ou dans des berceaux.

When did he start to stroke and compassionate?

Dieu n'aurait pas été digne de créer le monde, s'il avait oublié dans le néant l'immense Racaille qui devait un jour le crucifier.

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

the mark of a man is his contradictions.

We are real people with real feelings and we're not evil or mean. Take Ron for instance, he is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet and if you talked to him you'd see that instantly. I mean the guy is just super smart and super sweet and nice but nobody wants to talk about how goddamn normal we all are. We raise our kids and love our families and get our mail and wash our cars and do everything else that you or your wife do. It's really not as far out as people think.

We are all murderers and prostitutes -- no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.