Quotes About Humanity

Ama baz? insanlar için için bütün dünyayla dosttur, baz?lar? da kendilerinden nefret eder, nefretleri etrafa k?zarm?? ekmeÄŸin üstündeki tereya?? gibi yay?l?r.

Purtiest goddamn country you ever seen, but they ain't nice to you, them folks. They're so scairt an' worried they ain't even nice to each other.

Kutsal ruhun ve Ä°sa'n?n yolunu düÅŸündüm. Ne diye boyuna Allah'tan ya da Ä°sa'dan dem vurup duruyoruz diye düÅŸündüm. Belki, sevdiÄŸim ÅŸey bütün erkekler ve kad?nlard?r, belki kutsal ruh budur. Ä°nsanlar?n ruhudur. Bütün insanlard?r. Belki insanlar?n tek bir ruhu var da herkes teker teker bu ruhun parças?.

So we go into this happy new year, knowing that our species has learned nothing, can, as a race, learn nothing

John Steinbeck

Y cuando aquella cosecha crecía y luego se segaba, ningún hombre había desmigajado un terrón caliente con sus manos, dejando la tierra cribarse entre las puntas de los dedos; ninguno había palpado la semilla ni anhelado que ésta germinase.

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need — go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help — the only ones.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin, said John, and he looked at the long wrapped body. p. 241

And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.

Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.

And now you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.

Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943)

One world: everybody fucks everybody. When he thinks of all the fucking there's been in the world and all the fucking there's going to be, and none of it for him, here he sits in this stuffy car dying, his heart just sinks. He'll never fuck anybody again in his lifetime except poor Janice Springer, he sees this possibility ahead of him straight and grim as the known road.

Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.

God save us from ever ending, though billions have./ The world is blanketed by foregone deaths,/ small beads of ego, bright with appetite,/ whose pin-sized prick of light winked out,/ bequeathing Earth a jagged coral shelf/ unseen beneath the black unheeding waves.

Also ist mein Sohn ein Simpel.' In einer Hinsicht. Aber der größte Teil der Menschheit ist so. Weil es sonst zu schwer zu ertragen ist, Mensch zu sein. Im Gegensatz zu den Tieren wissen wir zu viel. Sie, die anderen Tiere, wissen gerade genug, um ihren Job zu machen und zu sterben. Um zu essen, zu schlafen, zu vögeln, Babys zu kriegen und zu sterben.

But it was my way of becoming a human being, and part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Can I just sit here for a moment? Human contact, and all that. There's one thing you don't get much in Starfleet—a hug. They ought to have a couple of people in charge of hugs, just to dispense them randomly.

The Golden Rule remains the best guidance in these matters," said Picard. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

We Believe: that faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life: that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations: that economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise: that government should be of laws rather than of men: that earth's great treasure lies in human personality: and that service to humanity is the best work of life.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.