Quotes About Humanity

Fights are much taxonomised. They have been subject over centuries to a complex, exhaustive categoric imperative. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There'll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

Üstelik bütün gölü kurutmalar? ihtimali vard?. Korunmaya al?nm??, sit alan? ilan edilmi? olsun, olmas?n, tereddütsüz yakacaklard? o bölgeyi. ?nsano?lu ç?kar? u?runa yerküreyi bir limon gibi s?kabilirdi.

What sort of people are they, to act thus?' Yedigei asked aloud; he was deeply upset. 'Everything on earth is important to them, except death.' Yet this thought gave him no peace. 'If death is nothing to them, then it follows that life also has no value for them. What is their purpose in life? For what and how do they live?

Tâm h?n tr? th? trong con ng??i nh? cái m?m trong h?t, không có m?m thì h?t không bao gi? m?c lên ???c. Và b?t k? nh?ng gì ?ang ch? ??i chúng ta ? trên ??i, s? th?t v?n ??i ??i b?t di?t, ch?ng nào con ng??i ta còn sinh ra và m?t ?i... (Con tàu tr?ng)

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

My theory of the uses of fiction is that benificent fiction calls into full life our total range of imaginative faculties and gives us a heightened sense of our personal, social and human reality.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

Mother Teresa once said, "If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." In

Our three-ring binders won't change a thing. But a little humor and humanity might. December

To increase positive variance is to welcome humanity and spontaneity into the system.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness — a little bit of humanity.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters.

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

Perhaps that is the miracle of stories. They make us realize that we're not alone in our folly and our suffering.

Vaishnava jana to tene kahiyeje pi?a paraay? jaa?e re. Only those who feel the pain of others may be called truly good. Sarojini sees her listening and says, "A doctor is like that, no?