Quotes About Humanity

Pido humildemente permiso para existir, imploro humildemente una alegría, una acción de gracias, pido que me permitan vivir con menos sufrimiento, pido para no ser tan puesta a prueba por las experiencias ásperas, pido a hombres y mujeres que me consideren un ser humano digno de algún amor y algún respeto. Pido la bendición de la vida.

A mais premente necessidade de um ser humano era tornar-se um ser humano.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

I am still corrupted by the condiment of the world.

The human condition is Christ's passion.

If a perfect person from the planet Mars landed and discovered that Earthlings got tired and grew old, that person would feel pity and astonishment. Without ever understanding what was good about being human, in feeling tired, in giving out daily; only the initiated would comprehend this subtlety of defectiveness and this refinement of life.

Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be person?

We have demonized the dark along with half of what is good within us, and half of the human race besides.

Put simply, all religion is anthropocentric.

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

The world began without the human race and it will end without it…. Man has never—save only when he reproduces himself—done other than cheerfully dismantle million upon million of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Death is only beginning to frighten me again. I had stopped being afraid of it after the revelation of that pale, pure morning when I understood that I was no different from other men. Scarcely more intelligent than the most stupid.

Il est plus facile d'être un voyageur ou un savant que d'être un ami, un amant. Plus aisé d'aimer les hommes vaguement que d'aimer à la perfection un seul être imparfait.

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

Charlotte: Racism exists outside of reason. Black people have never been human. Charles: That is so hopeless. Charlotte: Go further into that hopelessness, and then we can really begin to see each other.

The murkiness as we exist alongside each other calls us forward. I don't want to forget that I am here; at any given moment we are, each of us, next to any other capable of both the best and the worst our democracy has to offer.

La fuerza, la inteligencia, la estupidez, la belleza, la cobardía, la debilidad son situaciones y papeles por los que, antes o después, pasamos todos nosotros. Quien abusa amparándose en la fatalidad de la vida o del propio carácter, una hora o un año después se verá atacado en nombre de las mismas inefables razones. Lo mismo sucede con los pueblos, con sus virtudes, sus caídas y sus apogeos.