Quotes About Humanity

TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST

It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get—the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That

despersonalizar nuestros problemas para concentrarnos en la totalidad de la condición humana y el dolor de los demás. Dejando de lado nuestros problemas personales, debemos asumir los problemas de la humanidad, abrirnos a los sufrimientos de los demás y hacerlos nuestros. Para ayudarnos a crecer espiritualmente debemos aprender que la vida crea el sufrimiento. Esta es una etapa de servicio y caridad.10

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

Hatred is like a plague. It is all-consuming, and it springs from man to man.

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion... ...This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls," she told him. "Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do—at best—is prevent it from germinating.

You did not kill those children, and you could not have saved them. There is a limit to the power of any single man, even a hero. You were the boy who fought the bear. Now you are the man who killed the king. Yet you are only a man. You are not responsible for the woes of the world or the evil of other men.

Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong.

the proper study of humanity is humanity itself. History is not just old news. It's people.

Yeshua ben Yusef

If one is thoroughly disgusted by the politicians, the courts, the press and the suffocating culture, they should pat themselves on the back for being such an above-average specimen of humanity.

Whenever I read history, I feel as though I am hopelessly surrounded by hopelessly stupid people.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?

Once you can hang a price tag on something, you can in principle put a price tag on anything, including conscience and honor, to say nothing of body parts and children.

Too much anthropos makes the world a dull hole.

From the moment of its founding Americans began freeing their slaves—some 500,000 by the early 1800s—and in 1808 outlawed the slave trade entirely.

you for or against the equality of human beings?

It was what I believed to be the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was then; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am now.

Hell isn't other people. It's other people telling the same story for the twentieth time.