Quotes About Humanity

Already, "never again" was happening.

In April 1945, immediately before surrendering the construction site, the Germans locked 1,046 of the workers into a barn and burned them alive.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

People are more than just the way they look.

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

And yet throughout the world, past and present, for thousands of years, those whom we call good men, righteous men, have been accustomed to the sight of such things, have sat and looked and considered them to be matters of course, have not demanded justice for the victims or offered to help them. This is the most appalling, unjust, and unequal thing, the most inexplicable theory under heaven.

Being human means being vulnerable but it also means having the capacity to modify our responses and to make different choices.

How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?

He is a mortal," she says. "And mortals die." "I am a mortal!" he screams. "What good is godhead, if it cannot do this? What good are you?

The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

He had no chance, really. He was only flesh.

Achilles weeps. He craddles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name. I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun. His tears fall, but I cannot wipe them away. This is my element now, the half-life of the unburied spirit.

We are men only, a brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from." "But what if he is your friend?" Achilles had asked him, ... [o]r your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?" "You ask a question that philosophers argue over," Chiron had said. "He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

I failed him, yet he is a sweet wonder of this world.

They gave her to a mortal, trying to shackle the child's power. Dilute him with humanity, diminish him.

Once when I was young I asked what mortals looked like. My father said, "You may say they are shaped like us, but only as the worm is shaped like the whale.

Aucun homme ne vaut plus qu'un autre, d'où qu'il vienne

We cannot say. We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.

If they did not weep, I would not either.

It is hard to be impersonal in a cosmos that runs to personality.

If no one were allowed to be thrilled by anything, as long as someone is made wretched by something, the life of the whole planet would perish!