Quotes About Humanity

No, I wasn't trying to make Nat Turner look stupid. I was trying to make him more human. More like me. Angry, impotent, confused about his own sexuality. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right. Is that microphone really on?

The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man?

the fate of Bobby Weed at the hands of white Southern Americans is as bottomlessly barbaric as any act performed by the Nazis during the rule of Adolf Hitler! Do

And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.

In my career as a writer I have always been attracted to morbid themes—suicide, rape, murder, military life, marriage, slavery.

la negra noche del alma humana cuando millones de inocentes sufrían y morían bajo la dominación nazi.

servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence. Yet

Bloody and bowed by the outrages of life, most human beings still stagger on down the road, unscathed by real depression. To discover why some people plunge into the downward spiral of depression, one must search beyond the manifest crisis—and then still fail to come up with anything beyond wise conjecture.

I did not weep for the six million Jews or the two million Poles or the one million Serbs or the five million Russians -- I was unprepared to weep for all humanity -- but I did weep for these others who in one way or another had become dear to me, and my sobs made an unashamed racket across the abandoned beach

Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become a member of the human race.

Respect is essentially a yes to others, not to their demands, but rather to their basic humanity. In this sense, respect is indivisible. When we give respect to others, we are honoring the very same humanity that exists in us. When we acknowledge the dignity of others, we are acknowledging our own dignity. We cannot truly respect others without respecting ourselves at the same time.

H. W. Longfellow, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Lutar com dureza na negocição de questões substantivas aumenta a pressão para que se encontre uma solução eficaz. Apoiar os seres humanos do outro lado tende a melhorar o seu relacionamento e aumentar as chances de se chegar a um entendimento. É a combinação de apoio e ataque que funciona; uma coisa sem a outra será insuficiente.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.

How strange, she thought, that she could hate and love in the same breath.

Più che d'intelligenza abbiamo bisogno di dolcezza e di bontà.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Quando devi uccidere un uomo non costa nulla essere gentile.

Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo.

Whether you believe or disbelieve, it is a wicked thing to take away Man's hope.