Quotes About Humanity

Religious wars are the most terrible wars because they are waged without any prospect of conciliation.

All that society can achieve in these fields is to provide an environment which does not put insurmountable obstacles in the way of genius's and makes the common man free enough from material concerns to become interested in things other than mere breadwinning... the foremost social means of making a man more human is to fight poverty. Wisdom and science and the arts the way of genius and makes the common man free enough thrive better in a world of affluence than among needy peoples.

O autor utópico quer organizar as condições futuras de acordo com suas próprias ideias e privar o resto da humanidade, de uma vez por todas, da faculdade de escolher e agir.

If one treats men like cattle, one cannot squeeze out of them more than cattle-like performances.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

Frankly, people don't make sense to me.' I nod in agreement. 'Frankly, people don't make sense to me either,' I say.

It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.

Sometimes all it take to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

having someone with you when you die should not be a privilege but a right.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider's web, spinning a make-believe life. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?" - Minka (The Storyteller)

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

Sometimes all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

We routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens every year whose sole offense is that they overstayed a visa or came without the right paperwork—but people who were involved in crimes against humanity get to stay?

When the elevator doors open there is only one other person inside it, a homeless man with electric blue sunglasses and six plastic grocery bags filled with rags. Close the doors, dammit, he yells as soon as we step inside. Can't you see I'm blind? [...] From the back, the homeless man shoves between us, his bounty rustling in his arms. Stop yelling, he shouts. though we stand in utter silence. Can't you tell that I'm deaf?

The only monsters I have ever known were men," I said.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I believe in Hell . . . but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.

Sage shakes her head. "Surely there were some Germans who were better than others, some who didn't want to go along with what Hitler said. If you can't see them as individuals—if you can't forgive the ones who ask for it—doesn't that make you just as bad as any Nazi?""No," I admit. "It makes me human.