Quotes About Humanity

La amabilidad es para los vivos. Los muertos ya no la necesitan.

Todo el mundo piensa que no encaja del todo. Es parte de la maldición de ser humano.

Sikhs, however, should not allow the belief that God is immanent within humanity or nature to become pantheism or to say that any created being is God.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity (for real or woe), there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

So the platonic Year Whirls out new right and wrong, Whirls in the old instead; All men are dancers and their tread Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.

And yet the wise are of opinion that wherever man is, the dark powers who would feed his rapacities are there too, no less than the bright beings who store their honey in the cells of his heart, and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither, and that they encompass him with a passionate and melancholy multitude.

A learned theologian has laid down That starving men may take what's necessary, And yet be sinless.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.

You shall love your crooked neighbor with you crooked heart.

We must love one another or die

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

We are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

Thousands have lived without love, none without water.

Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full strength of Collective Man.

He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.