Quotes About Humanity

El martirio de la humanidad es doble: para el macho, la más dura fatiga: el pensar; para la hembra, la más espantosa tortura: el parir.

El hombre es más artista que la naturaleza.

Não existe no mundo raça mais necessária do que os imbecis. Se não houvesse génios, ainda seríamos bárbaros, mas sem néscios a espécie humana teria terminado desde longa data.

Quien no ha deseado por lo menos una vez en su vida ser un santo, es, todo lo más, una bestia

?i eu sunt om, ?i eu vreau s? fiu mare ?i fericit.

Amar aos homens como castigo Como os homens são, quase todos, desprezíveis e repugnantes - tudo menos dignos de amor -, amá-los por determinação (e só por temor a Deus os podemos amar) constitui uma pena, um suplício, uma penitência.

R?spunsul meu - singurul posibil la vremea aceea - la r?ut?cioasa nedreptate a sorÈ›ii È™i la t?cuta duÈ™m?nie a oamenilor, a fost convingerea în nesfârÈ™ita deÈ™ert?ciune a tuturor lucrurilor, în tic?loÈ™ia înn?scut? È™i în nefericirea de neînl?turat a speÈ›ei umane.

Quem imagina que vive porque enche e esvazia o ventre, porque fala e corre, porque gera filhos e escava fossos ilude-se e está morto - um daqueles mortos aos quais é permitido sepultar os seus mortos. Vivemos sem medo, no meio de uma multidão de cadáveres que andam, sorriem e serão sepultados sem terem jamais vivido.

Cum s? fac s? m? cunosc pe mine însumi, dac? nu sunt în stare s? m? reg?sesc în aceast? multitudine de oameni care m? înghesuie ÅŸi p?trunde în mine din toate p?rÅ£ile? - s? tr?iesc pentru vecie ca un necunoscut - lucrul acesta e unul dintre cele mai aspre chinuri ale vieÅ£ii mele nespus de dure.

Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro.

No hay más Dios que el hombre y cada hombre tiene su encarnación.

Nella vita" mi disse tornando a leggere il giornale "il valore della gente non lo si misura né con la stadera né col metro">>.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me.

If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.

now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.

on the whole the US personnel soon felt considerably more sympathy for the Germans than for their victims.

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

I'm not happy to face it," he added, "but in the context of my life then, these workers' only significance was what they could produce towards our war effort; I didn't see or think of them as human beings, as individuals.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.

Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate?