Quotes About Humanity

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

No se puede vivir sin amar

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly as possible.

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Cruelty takes many forms, but all those forms depend on the human hability to dehumanize and de-individualize another person.

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

human beings are condemned to live in two ethical and behavioral worlds at once -the morality of empathy for and reciprocity with ingroups, and cold-hearted team aggression aimed at outgroups.

We humans are a frightening animal. Throughout our species existence, we have used each new technology we have developed to boost the destructive power of our ancient predisposition for killing members of our own species.

The evidence of history is that no advance which can be applied to the killing of other human beings goes unused.

Systematic rape is one of the most hideous, and most explicitly male, expressions of warfare, but it is hardly the only one. All wars are extraordinarily costly in material terms and grotesquely painful in human terms. Yet wars are so much a part of the human experience that we don't always pause to realize that one of the most astonishing aspects of war is the very fact that we so regularly go out and deliberately kill members of our own species.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

When did we stop being people, being human?

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

She treated me like a real person. She didn't see me as just a colour

the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself

We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Der Mensch, der liebt, weil er durch die Wahrheit Gottes frei gemacht ist, ist der revolutionärste Mensch auf Erden.

Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht etwas jenseits des Menschlichen, sondern es will mitten im Menschlichen sein. Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht ein Selbstzweck, sondern es besteht darin, daß der Mensch als Mensch vor Gott leben darf und soll.