Quotes About Humanity

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.

La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.

Women treat us just as Humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them', answered Lord Henry, toying with some fruits. 'I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us,' murmured Dorian Gray, gravely. 'They create Love in our natures. They have a right to demand it bac'k.

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

L'inferno e il paradiso sono tutti e due dentro di noi.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty

An animal more like the gods than these, more intellectually capable and able to control the other beasts, had not as yet appeared: now man was born, either

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.

He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.

Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization. There it stands, mutilated, tragic as a torso. Is not the human spirit itself a torso?

Dünya'n?n hiçbir yerinde uluslar sevgiyle yönetilmezler ...y?ld?zlar, ÅŸimdi y?ld?zlar sevgiyle yönetiliyor.

I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.