Quotes About Humanity

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

The more he approached the people and perceived their anger-filled eyes and the dark, tortured fierceness of their expressions, the more his heart stirred, the more his bowels flooded with deep sympathy and love. These are the people, he reflected. They are all brothers, every one of them, but they do not know it—and that is why they suffer. If they knew it, what celebrations there would be, what hugging and kissing, what happiness!

I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint!

God replies every time we question him, but our flesh is bemired and almost deaf: we do not hear.

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Sufletul omului e aidoma lutului, neÈ™lefuit; neprelucrat înc?, cu porniri grosolane, dintr-o bucat?.

Salvarea omului atârn? de un cap?t de a??, de un strig?t de iubire.

Ascult?, b?iete. Pe Dumnezeu nu pot s?-l încap? cele nou? colÅ£uri ale cerului ÅŸi nici cele ÅŸapte ale p?mântului; îl încape îns? inima omului. ?i d-aia, È›ine minte, Zorbas, ai binecuvântarea mea, ai grij? s? nu r?neÈ™ti niciodat? inima omului!

Solange es Kinder gibt die hungern, gibt es keinen Gott!

A alma humana é inteiramente lama, é bruta, não trabalhada, tem sensações ainda grosseiras e rudes, não consegue prever nada de nítido, de certo.

Dünyaya özgürlüÄŸün gelmesi için bu kadar cinayetler ve alçakl?klar m? gerekli yani? Çünkü, oturup sana iÅŸlediÄŸimiz cinayetlerde yapt???m?z alçakl?klar? saysam tüylerin ürperir. Fakat sonuç ne oldu? Özgürlük! Tanr? y?ld?r?m?n? at?p bizi yakaca??na özgürlüÄŸü veriyor? Hiçbir ÅŸey anlayam?yorum!..

Nikos Kazantzakis

eli, eli, lema sabachtani

I have instant compassion for men as equal human beings. Equally beaten down by the patriarchy and equally lost and wandering. At least women get to hug each other.

Don'tcha know that no one alive can always be an angel? When everything goes wrong, you see some bad But oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they'd become sick, because by seeking his help, somehow they became his.

I have never had a money practice; it would have been impossible for me. But the actual calling on people, at all times and under all conditions, the coming to grips with the intimate conditions of their lives, when they were being born, when they were dying, watching them die, watching them get well when they were ill, has always absorbed me. —William Carlos Williams, M.D. Autobiography

Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles

yo creo que todos los movimientos, todas las grandes organizaciones, de este mundo, son mentiras y ganancias para alguien. Yo lo que creo es que la gente deberia causar el menor daño posible a los demas seres humanos

La humanidad está muy cerca del salvajismo y tiene que regirse por normas. De lo contrario, nos hundiríamos en nuestra propia naturaleza animal y pereceríamos.

era capaz de rezar y odiar al mismo tiempo.

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.

So we march on, following our leaders, toward an "Armageddon of our own making.