Quotes About Humanity

I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

The intelligence (and humanity) of a person are apparent in the strategies he employs to get what he wants. Wisdom, in winning only that whose keeping would not cause too much headache.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

Tener un corazón capaz de amar, un corazón que puede conocer la ansiedad y el sufrimiento, que puede afligirse y conmoverse, es la característica más específica de la naturaleza humana. El corazón es la esfera más tierna, más interior, más secreta de la persona, y es precisamente en el corazón de Jesús donde habita la plenitud de la divinidad»

Auténtico es quien se comporta con humanidad. Quien se maneja solo a partir de los instintos acaba asemejándose a una bestia, que carece de corazón.

Jesucristo se hace hombre para salvarnos. El camino que recorre en esta tierra es el de la entrega. Con una libertad divina —sin que nadie lo obligue— llega hasta el extremo: obedeciendo a la voluntad de su Padre, extiende sus brazos en la cruz para redimirnos y hacernos participar de su amor.

No sorprende que a lo largo de los años los latinoamericanos hayan aprendido a aceptar las imperfecciones humanas de sus líderes. Bolívar se lo enseñó.

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I'm sometimes amazed the human species survived to the present day, given the things we did to ourselves in the name of healing." p. 103, Elemental Imbalances

Humanity is only capable of worshipping Self — thus, it is necessary, that when people are persuaded to pay honor to an elected Divinity, they should be well and comfortably assured in their own minds that they are but offering homage to an Image of Self placed before them in a deified or heroic form. This satisfies the natural idolatrous cravings of Egotism, and this is all that priests or teachers desire.

Man, as a purely natural creature, fairly educated, but wholly unspiritualized, is a mental composition of: Hunger, Curiosity, Self-Esteem, Avarice, Cowardice, Lust, Cruelty, Personal Ambition; and on these vile qualities alone our 'society' hangs together; the virtues have no place anywhere, and do not count at all, save as conveniently pious metaphors.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

I am one of those who think, like Nobel , that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

Noi non possiamo sperare di costruire un mondo migliore senza migliorare gli individui. Con questo scopo, ciascuno di noi deve lavorare al proprio perfezionamento, pur accettando la propria parte nella vita generale dell'Umanità; poiché il nostro dovere particolare è di aiutare quelli ai quali possiamo essere più utili

FEEL SAD, NOT MAD Imagine how painful and miserable someone's life must be to have time to be that mean.

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.