Quotes About Humanity

It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Als u de mensheid hebt verlost, waarom mij dan niet - dat was toch in één moeite door gegaan?

Zullen we even medelijden met onszelf hebben?' vroeg hij?

Belangstelling is wel een van de beste eigenschappen van de mens, deze wonderlijke aardbewoner.

Een mooie avond,' zei Frits. 'Zoek jij ook graag de ellende van deze wereld? Wandel je Zondags ook graag op kerkhoven? De meeste mensen denken nergens aan.

we can find a balanced way forward that will allow us to embrace technology but not become technology, to use it as a tool and not as a purpose.

Why? Why did we walk like meek sheep to the slaughter-house? Why did we not fight back? What had we to lose? Nothing but our lives. Why did we not run away and hide? We might have had a chance to survive. Why did we walk deliberately and obediently into their clutches? I know why. Because we had faith in humanity. Because we did not really think that human beings were capable of committing such crimes.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation or two, not the failure of mankind to breed. A woman seeking alternative modes of life is no longer morally bound to pay her debt to nature.

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence.

We still make love to organs and not people.

Charity sees the need not the cause.

Christ came to redeem us from under the laws of frail, fickle human love on which no one can depend,

Over time, and perhaps because of his contact with human beings, the Doctor mellowed and became less irascible. But his brilliance and his passion for justice remained undiminished. …

All people are made alike - of bones and flesh and dinner - Only the dinners are different.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

If nobody had to die how would there be room enough for any of us who now live to have lived.

Il peccato, inventato dagli uomini per meritare la pena di vivere, per non essere castigati senza perché.

L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.

All is mystery except our pain.

Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.

So the peak of human knowledge or philosophy is to recognize its own uselessness—if man were still the same as he was in the beginning—and to undo the damage that it has done, and return man to the condition in which he would always have been if it had never existed.

So, ignorant of man and of the age that he calls ancient, and of the descendants following their ancestors, nature stays evergreen; indeed she travels such a long road she might as well be standing still. Meanwhile kingdoms fall, languages and peoples die; she doesn't see. Yet man takes it upon himself to praise eternity.