Quotes About Humanity

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

I like to observe people, and I find people pretty fascinating. So I think character is my strength.

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

I'm obsessed with being human.

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life.

I've talked to people of every race and occupation. The bottom line is that we're all the same.

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

The terrible, exasperating thing about humans is how goodness and gentleness, and utter depravity and disregard for human life, can be contained within the same person, and in terrifyingly close proximity.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

La palabra del hombre es hija de la muerte. Hablamos porque somos mortales: las palabras no son signos. Son años. Al decir lo que dicen los nombres que decimos dicen tiempo: nos dicen, somos hombres del tiempo. Conversar es humano.

La historia tiene la realidad atroz de una pesadilla; la grandeza del hombre consiste en hacer obras hermosas y durables con la sustancia real de esa pesadilla.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

La sexualidad es animal; el erotismo es humano.... Y que consiste, esencialmente, en desviar o cambiar el impulso sexual reproductor y transformarlo en una representación. El amor... es una ceremonia y representación... una purificación..que transforma al sujeto y al objeto del encuentro erótico en personas únicas. El amor es la metáfora final de la sexualidad.

I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little

Es posible que lo que llamamos pecado no sea sino la expresión mítica de la conciencia de nosotros mismos, de nuestra soledad.

Al escribir historia me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama historia patria es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

Pero su recuerdo no me abandona. Quien ha visto la Esperanza, no la olvida. La busca bajo todos los cielos y entre todos los hombres. Y sueña que un día va a encontrarla de nuevo, no sabe dónde, acaso entre los suyos. En cada hombre late la posibilidad de ser o, más exactamente, de volver a ser , otro hombre.