Quotes About Humanity

a partir de ahora tendría que moverse entre multitud de seres cuyas úlceras no estaban el apiel o en las entrañas, sino en la mente: individuos llagados en el espíritu, tarados del alma

Nei, ingenting av dette var dårlige planer, synes jeg, og jeg merket at jeg virkelig klarte å beholde den lette stemningen dagen hadde sartet med, at jeg ikke falt ned i et av de hullene jeg med jevne mellomrom synker ned i, i disse hullene i livet som stadig vekk åpner seg der hvor jeg er og som gjør at jeg ikke klarer å være til stede i gleden som hele tiden ligger foran oss alle mennesker og ber oss om å delta i seg.

The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.

Bøgers skæbne er ligeså forunderlig som menneskers. Den er aldrig til at forudse.

Ajatella, jos ei koskaan voisi tulla iloiseksi tai pettyä, mietti isä veneen kiitäessä läpi myrskyn. Ei koskaan voisi pitää kenestäkään, eikä suuttua eikä antaa anteeksi. Ei koskaan voisi nukkua eikä palella, ei koskaan erehtyä, ei tuntea vatsakipua eikä toipua siitä, ei viettää syntymäpäivää, ei juoda olutta eikä tuntea pahaa omaatuntoa...

og forresten er vel alle og enhver ulykkelig på sin egen måte, og det skulle jeg tro de har rett til!

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

V? tr? có m?t ý ngh?a, và chính con ng??i, khi hi?u nó, ?ã trao cho nó cái ý ngh?a ?ó.

One paradigm is shared by the largest community of all: the human race. This is the paradigm that I call the Universal Human Paradigm. It is a "master" paradigm, by which I mean that all other paradigms held by people are subsets of it.

It's as if the entire human race were one big village of people whispering over and over the same message to each other, so that no one can help but believe it.

This is why I love poems: they invite me to sit down and listen to a voice speaking thoughtfully and passionately about what it feels like to be alive.

Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective. "Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology

How wonderful would it be if trust, or even love, might be possible between any of us — or even all of us. I mean, if we let ourselves believe such a thing is possible.

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation." "Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community." "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.