Quotes About Humanity

I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «Ã¢â'¬Â¦ y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir».

I think that one person's story is always part of other people's stories.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

Pienso que todo ser humano tiene una infinita y callada capacidad para ejercer la violencia, quiéralo o no. Las máscaras ayudan, cubren, tapan, disimulan, pero no la eliminan. Lo que hacen las guerras y las dictaduras es levantar esas máscaras y poner tal virtualidad de manifiesto, permitiendo que aflore en un esplendor desatado; la impunidad lo permite.

humana é capaz de desvendar todos os mistérios. Isto é

O importante aqui é valorizar o processo, é o querer entender que atribui significado às nossas vidas. A essência fundamental do apetite humano é essa curiosidade pelo saber, qualquer que seja ele. A ciência é apenas um dos canais que utilizamos para conhecer o mundo e também a nossa essência.

God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

There is no strength but that which is destructive, because man has lost his virtues, and only respects force, which he himself cannot counteract.

For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the challenge. Pretty much always. As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus. To know it, all you needed to remember was that we had started as chimpanzees—and then look around.

As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus

For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the challenge. Pretty much always. As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus. To know

It's kind of a circle. When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid." "But why would they want that?" "It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.