Quotes About Humanity

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. —Aesop

People are people,"..."You can fall in love with either sex- it's the *person* who makes the difference. His or her spectacular insides.

The skills needed to describe and recognize perturbations in the Homo sapiens microecology are disappearing with the passing of the generations, leaving humanity, lulled into a complacency born of proud discoveries and medical triumphs, unprepared for the coming plague. 1 Machupo BOLIVIAN HEMORRHAGIC FEVER Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences.

A new global iatrogenic form of malaria was emerging—"iatrogenic" meaning created as a result of medical treatment. In its well-meaning zeal to treat the world's malaria scourge, humanity had created a new epidemic.

The gift of empathy opens us up when the tendency to shut down and turn away from the world is often at its greatest.

The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people's suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

Ma poésie ne consistera qu'à attaquer, par tous les moyens, l'homme, cette bête fauve, et le Créateur, qui n'aurait pas dû engendrer une pareille vermine.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.

The Baghdad Zoo experience certainly altered my perception of my own species and inexorably pushed me to explore in more depth mankind's near-suicidal relationship with the plant and animal kingdoms. The most crucial lesson I learned in Baghdad was this: If "civilized" man is capable of routinely justifying such blatant abuse of trapped wildlife, what of the other unseen atrocities being inflicted on our planet?

It is a terrible indictment against the human race that it's possible for such places of brutality to exist.

Lawrence Anthony

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

For the robot classes and masses are only kept sane by the kindness of living women and men.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Yes the world is the best place of all for a lot of such things as making the fun scene and making the love scene and making the sad scene

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.

si los mortales estaban sufriendo «más de lo necesario» no era por culpa de los dioses, sino por culpa de «la ceguera de sus propios corazones».

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.