Quotes About Humanity

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently.

I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!

Profesorii sunt ?i ei oameni. ?i se tem c? restul lumii va afla c? sunt doar oameni.

You see that bottle?" I told him I had wondered about it when we came into his office. "Well, how many people do you know who are prepared to take a grown man into his arms and let him nurse with the bottle? And take the chance of having the patient urinate or defecate all over him? You look surprised. You can't understand it, can you, from way up there in your research ivory tower? What do you know about being shut out from every human experience as our patients have been?

Ce ciudat este faptul c? niÈ™te oameni cu sentimente oneste de sensibilitate, care nu s-ar lua niciodat? de un om n?scut f?r? mâini, picioare sau ochi, nu se dau înapoi de la maltratarea unui om slab de minte.. Chiar È™i un om slab de minte vrea s? fie asemeni celorlalÈ›i oameni. Un copil mic poate s? nu È™tie cum s? se hr?neasc? singur sau ce s? m?nânce, dar È™tie c?-i este foame..

As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.

Sappiamo che un mondo senza dolore è un mondo senza sentimento... ma un mondo senza sentimento è un mondo senza dolore.

Ele comete o mesmo erro que os outros quando olham para uma pessoa de mente débil e riem porque não entendem que existem sentimentos humanos envolvidos

InteligenÈ›a ,educaÈ›ia È™i cunoaÈ™terea au devenit niÈ™te idoli veneraÈ›i. Dar È™tiu bine c? toÈ›i aÈ›i pierdut din vedere un lucru: inteligenÈ›a È™i educaÈ›ia care f?r? sentimente omeneÈ™ti nu fac nici cât o ceap? degerat?. Nu m? înÈ›elegeÈ›i greÈ™it. InteligenÈ›a este unul dintre cele mai mari daruri ale omului. Dar de cele mai multe ori c?utarea cunoaÈ™terii exclude c?utarea dragostei.

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!

Once we penetrate deeply into the human fabric, comparisons with art become vital, because the tantrika's search is precisely to transform life into a work of art—that is to say, into the discovery of the profound relationship of individual humanity to spatiality.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.

I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules.

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

And so your account of creation ends, 'And finally man appeared.'

WE NOW KNOW TWO HIGHLY important things about people," Ishmael said, "at least according to Taker mythology. One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live—and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things.