Quotes About Humanity

People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.

I knew that people lived badly, remembered the barracks of the Khamovniki brewery, had seen flophouses, all-night cafés, drunkards, cruel and ignorant people, prison. But all that had been from the outside, and in the courtroom I caught a glimpse of people's hearts.

The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

The world had seen the same thing happen many times before. After it happened in Nazi Germany, all the big, powerful countries swore, "Never again!" But here we were, six harmless females huddled in darkness, marked for execution because we were born Tutsi. How had history managed to repeat itself? How had this evil managed to surface once again? Why had the devil been allowed to walk among us unchallenged, poisoning hearts and minds until it was too late?

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Perhaps the world is not as a simple a place as I would like it to be. No one is following any of the principles that they are supposed to.

Without love--what are we, what have we? Throughout the world, absolute certainty, righteousness, and outrage have completely displaced love and compassion. So, although we all know that we are right, where are we without love?

daß jenseits des Anekdotischen jede Geschichte und jedermanns Geschichte vom wesentlichen her gesehen gleichartig sei, und daß diese im wesentlichen gleichartigen Geschichten im wesentlichen tatsächlich alle Schreckensgeschichten seien, daß im wesentlichen alles Geschehen tatsächlich schrecklich sei und daß, im wesentlichen, auch die Geschichte schon seit langem nichts als höchstens eine Schreckensgeschichte sei.

Elke overtuiging is het masker van een bepaald soort mensen, maar met welke overtuiging ze zich ook maskeren, ze blijven toch altijd dezelfde mensen en ze doen steeds opnieuw hetzelfde.

Weltvertrauen, vertrouwen in de wereld. Hij beschrijft hoe moeilijk het is om zonder dat vertrouwen te leven. Wie dat vertrouwen eenmaal is kwijtgeraakt, is voor altijd tot eenzaamheid veroordeeld onder de mensen. Zo iemand ziet in een ander nooit meer zijn medemens, maar altijd alleen de vijand.

Na Auschwitz is het overbodig over de menselijke natuur te oordelen.

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Egzakt fogalmat nem birván az elme, Ti mégis mindig ezt keresitek Önátkotokra, büszke emberek.

S e sok próbára mégis az hiszed, Hogy új küzdésed nem lesz hasztalan? S célt érsz? Valóban e megtörhetetlen Gyermekkedély csak emberé lehet.

Now, individuality is the sign of superior races and of civilizations already developed. If we make use of an expression dear to Nietzsche, we might say that in Asia, to speak of humanity is to speak of its plains; in Japan as in Europe, one represents it above all by its mountains.

Indeed, the sense of shame seems to me to be the earliest indication of the moral consciousness of our race.

E' tutto collegato. Quello che accade ora agli animali, succederà in seguito all'uomo

You're well enough looked after now' says Farouq. 'We are your friends. Don't we care about you? All this bitterness, it's in your own mind. To be accepted as a human being, you must behave like one. The more human you act, the more human you'll be.' He spoils the effect of this decent speech by adding with a smirk, 'Four-foot cunt.