Quotes About Humanity

I've done all I want to do about me, already," Jenny told her son. "Now I'm interested in other people.

to err is human, to forgive, divine." "You like Shakespeare, do you?

I have dwelt a while in the soul of a shackled black man and taken a little of it into my own, forever.

I cannot describe the change nor do I know when it took place, yet I know that there is a change for I look on the carcass of a man now with pretty much such feeling as I would were it a horse or hog.

I'm not sure it's altogether right to encourage and reward fighting and killing, but that's the way things are.

Shakespeare permeated his whole being, and his influence is to be detected not in a resemblance of style, for Shakespeare can have no imitators, but in a broadening view of life, and increased humanity.

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures; or, O torturing fact! Who, through an idiot blink, will see unpack'd Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe Our gold and ripe-ear'd hopes.

Upon the forehead of humanity. All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship

I am a shadow now, alas! alas! Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling Alone: I chant alone the holy mass, While little sounds of life are round me knelling, And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310 Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me, And thou art distant in Humanity.

the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation

To be thrown among people who care not for you, with whom you have no sympathies[-] [it] forces the Mind upon its own resources, and leaves it free to make its speculations [on] the differences of human character and to class them with the calmness of a Botanist...

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Claude puede ser amable y bueno, y eso no puedes serlo tú, con toda tu política y tus aires de sabio. Con todo lo que he hecho siempre por ti, lo único que tú haces es tratarme a patadas. Quiero que alguien me trate bien antes de morir. Lo aprendiste todo, Ignatius, todo, salvo cómo debe comportarse un ser humano.

For every nice thing I ever done for you, I just get kicked around. I want to be treated nice by somebody before I die. You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being

I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity's future, I hoped that they were all sterile.

Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

War remains the decisive human failure.

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

Times change, and wars change. But men don't change, do they?

I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars were made by something ignorant in the human heart

but people's memories are short for any sorrow that isn't theirs...

Imagine all the people, sharing all the world