Quotes About Humanity

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

hayal ürünü yarat?klardan deÄŸil, ancak insanlardan korkulmas? gerektiÄŸini söyler.

Not them. Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead.

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal.

William Golding

Demek istediÄŸim ÅŸu... Bizden baÅŸka canavar yok belki...

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.

the friends of humanity once more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those who are trying to help themselves.

It was a short step from the liberal Christ-the-highest-in-humanity to the Nazi Superman.

if we are going to meet God, we will meet God in the flesh.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth is as much to say as that he is brave toward God and a coward toward men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth.

8. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.

Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.

All of which goes to prove that there is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you the power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

There were some ten million Jews living in 1939 in the territories occupied by Hitler's forces. By any estimate it is certain that nearly half of them were exterminated by the Germans. This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to—or shared with—so many of his German followers.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways. Homo narrans, juridicus, ludens, diaspora: we are storytelling, legal, game-playing, scattered people, too. True but incomplete. That old phrase has the secret. We are all, have always been, will always be, Homo vorago aperientis: person before whom opens a vast & awesome hole.

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.

Ilse Aichinger, "The Bound Man