Quotes About Humanity

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

Any woman's death diminishes me.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.