Quotes About Humanity

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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover.

Lo único bonito de la Luna son las personas.

We measure our own humanity by how we respond to the unprogrammed, the unpredictable.

Dicen que la Luna es dura. No; la gente es dura. Siempre es la gente.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

El universo es infinitamente rico y complejo y suceden en él todo tipo de cosas maravillosas. Pero no deberíamos confundir los resultados con las causas e imaginar que el propósito del universo es hacer seres humanos.

The fact that Homo sapiens is the only hominid species on the Earth today makes it easy to assume that our lonely eminence is historically a natural state of affairs—which it clearly is not.

PROLOGUE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! —RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of East and West

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ser humano y mujer, ni más ni menos.

Aveva trattato ogni genere di merce - stoffe, spezie, cereali, animali, navi, oro e argento - e conosceva il prezzo degli schiavi, ma quanto valeva un amico?

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Saying of the Prophet Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.