Quotes About Humanity

Having a heart is terrible, but you still need one anyway.

Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.

It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all.

Here's why I don't like these stories: They highlight that I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. I hate that most of all.

Human girls cry when they're sad and laugh when they're happy. They have a single fixed shape rather than shifting with their whims like windblown smoke. They have their own parents, whom they love. They don't go around stealing other girls' mothers. At least that's what Kaye thought human girls were like. She wouldn't really know. After all, she wasn't human.

Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and color, the form of fingernails, and the amount and texture of body hair. But 'race' is a phantom conjured up by people no different from each other than purebred Cocker spaniels are. Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.

Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.

Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque.

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?

So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.

Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voilà tout.