Quotes About Humanity

If oppression produced saints, we'd want everyone to be oppressed.

We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway.

No political system or economic order can ever be regarded as the full, or even as an adequate, realization of justice. All human social structures and centers of power are denied ultimate significance. Every human attempt to create justice, when measured against the perfect justice of God's coming kingdom, is inescapably partial and limited.

Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Looking down upon us maybe God laughs, but at the same time he cries too.

If only inflicted pain could be as contagious As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.

The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century.

Mother Teresa said: Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.1 —MOTHER TERESA

Si sa infatti che il vero bisogno, quando lo si avverta nella voce, quando lo si legga sul volto, ha il potere di chiudere le borse.

A régebbi zeneszerzÅ'k közül nekem Chopin és Schubert a legkedvesebb. Tudom, hogy a zenetanárunknak igaza volt, amikor Mozartot mennyeinek, Beethovent nagyszer?nek, Gluckot páratlannak, Bachot pedig hatalmasnak nevezte; tudom. Bach nekem mindig olyan, mint egy harminckötetes dogmatika, amely bámulatba ejt. De Schubert és Chopin két olyan földi lény, amilyen alighanem magam is vagyok.

Es ist doch merkwürdig, daß ich ihr nicht böse sein kann. Ich bin vor Schmerz fast tot, todkrank, und sie tanzt, obwohl sie teilgenommen hat an meinem Schmerz, und ich kann nicht böse sein, nein....

Žmogus be li?desio nebe žmogus.

Every death is a murder, every death in war is a murder for which someone is responsible.

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have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?

We had learned on the North Face of the Eiger that men are good and the earth on which we were born is good.

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.