Quotes About Humanity

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together In one circle Arms on each other's shoulders And dance, laugh and cry together Then much of the tension and burden of life Would fall away In the knowledge that We are all children Needing and wanting Each other's Comfort and Understanding We are all children Searching for love

The Nazis take the skeleton in the closet of centuries and rattle it boastfully. Force, they declare, will always be necessary, since it is in the nature of human life (which is true, if one accepts their concept of human life).

the heart of the world Here I am, locked in my own shadow for more that twenty years, and yet I have reached my hand through stone and steel and razor wire and touched the heart of the world Mitakuye Oyasin, my Lakota brethren say. We are all related. We are One.

With all else that's been taken from us, we ask that you leave us our name, our self-respect, our sense of belonging to the great human family of which we are all part.

Thought for the Week "Refrain from littering the landscape with unkind, cynical, mean-spirited words, and you can return the world to a civility that was lost when human beings began deifying indiscriminant thoughts as if they were the truth." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

The units that we use reflect our own size. The origin of the meter seems to be that it was used to measure rope or cloth: it's about the distance from a person's nose to his or her outstretched fingers. A second is about as long as a heartbeat. And a kilogram is a nice weight to carry around. We use these units because they are convenient, but fundamental physics doesn't care that much about us. The

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

E allora l'uomo è più straniero nella parte del boia che in quella del condannato; più nella verità se manovra la ghigliottina, e meno se ci sta sotto.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy -- what is it if not madness?

You love humanity and I detest it. At best I am indifferent to it. Let it live and not interfere with me.

Literature, which I have the honor to serve, is dear to me just because the noblest task it sets before itself is that of wiping out boundaries and distances.

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

This is the really incomprehensible side of humanity, people never have time for anything.

Isn't it enough that the world is full of ugly human beings without making copies of them?

Strange how the bible always seems to end up in misery and cataclysm. I often wondered how their angry and vicious God became so popular. Humanity is very strange and I don't pretend to understand anything, however why worship something that only sends you plagues and massacres? and why was Eve blamed for everything?

God made integers, all else is the work of man.