Quotes About Humanity

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.

It is only when we see just how wonderful and amazing man is that we can appreciate the magnitude of the Fall and the greatness of redemption.

The more one is truly human, the more one is able to trust, because one understands the reasons for believing in another.

the greatest danger which today's humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither is it famine, nor even disease; rather it is spiritual malady, which is the most terrible malady because the most directly human among the scourges is to remain "without the taste for life."5 In such a situation, the individual finds himself ever more vulnerable within the social fabric. This is the most dangerous outcome of solitude.

don Giussani toccava cose che ci riguardano in quanto uomini: le nostre preoccupazioni quotidiane, i nostri bisogni, le nostre perplessità e dubbi.

Il cuore dell'uomo, autocoscienza del tutto

Comunque, la cosa più impressionante del cristianesimo la nota Newman. Lui dice che solo il cristianesimo, in tutta la storia dell'umanità, ha come contenuto del suo messaggio – dal punto di vista antropologico, cioè dal punto di vista dell'uomo – l'annuncio di un cambiamento radicale della personalità. Un cambiamento non morale, ma un cambiamento radicale della personalità.

When they cry "Man overboard!" the oceanliner, as big as a house, stops all at once and the man they fish out with the ropes. But when a man's soul is overboard, when he drowns from horror and from desperation not even his own household stops but distances itself.

Dio ha fatto il cielo e la terra, ma solo il settimo giorno si riposò, dopo d'aver creato l'uomo, perché finalmente aveva qualcuno a cui perdonare».18

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Imparerai a tue spese che nel lungo tragitto della vita incontrerai tante maschere e pochi volti.

It was as if a dump truck had spilled a ton of humanity into the yard. Bodies were jammed onto the patio, elbowing gently to get at the new macaroni salad and ignoring the mustard coleslaw.

Audiences for ten years have been startled to learn that the federal law that makes these humans illegal isn't even on the criminal books. You can look it up for yourself, since no TV or radio host is going to waste a segment explaining the actual law to you. Right or left. Felony? Nope. Misdemeanor? Sorry, but no.

People daily speak a quilt of words, and continents and nations and tribes and even enemies dance all over your mouth when you speak. The tongue seems to know no race, no affiliation, no breed, no caste, no order, no genus, no lineage.

There should be no such thing as an illegal person on this planet.

The media only cares about the Yuma 14 because of the large numbers. But this tragedy goes on every day. It never stops. If only one person dies out there, it is exactly the same horror story.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

I believe in an "emotional architecture." It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.

No conozco a los hombres. Años llevo De buscarles y huirles sin remedio. ¿No les comprendo? ¿O acaso les comprendo Demasiado? Del poema 'A un poeta futuro' del libro Como quien espera el alba

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.

Cuanto mejor era ser espectador de la gran farsa de la vida humana que desempeñar en ella un papel de actor, aunque fuera secundario! ¡Cuánto mejor ser libre que esclavo de un gran empeño que, como todos los grandes empeños, tarde o temprano acabaría por mostrar su condición ilusoria y estéril!

IN LAK'ECH Tú eres mi otro yo. You are my other me. Si te hago daño a ti, If I do harm to you, Me hago daño a mi mismo. I do harm to myself. Si te amo y respeto, If I love and respect you, Me amo y respeto yo. I love and respect myself.