Quotes About Humanity

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Be kind. For everyone is fighting a hard battle.

And so, from such early times human beings have had Love for one another inborn in them -- Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Pues nadie conoce la muerte, ni siquiera si es, precisamente, el mayor de todos los bienes para el hombre, pero la temen como si supieran con certeza que es el mayor de los males.

The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes.

For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed.

it is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

El hombre de bien tan pronto es malo, tan pronto bueno.

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.

Cuando se hizo al hombre partícipe de las cualidades divinas, fue el único de todos los animales, que a causa del parentesco que le unía con el ser divino, se convenció de que existen dioses, les levantó altares y les dedicó estatuas.

Öyleyse dostum, insanlara yap?lan kötülük onlar? doÄŸruluktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!" We all have. It's called living. (Hogfather)

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

One of them declared: 'Doing this work, one either goes crazy the first day or gets accustomed to it.' Another, though: 'Certainly I could have killed myself or got myself killed; but I wanted to survive, to avenge myself and bear witness. You mustn't think that we are monsters; we are the same as you, only much more unhappy.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist.

It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.