Quotes About Humanity

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Humans have not fully evolved from idiots yet.

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

Cu mine se petrece ceva. O via?? de om.

Facerea primului om a fost semnul dec?derii totale ?i absolute a cerului.

With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition now.What was he but a fragment of broken churned-up humanity washed up on this faraway shore? This was where his journey had brought him.... There mus be a song in this...

Once humans learned how to enter the psychic plane, then it wouldn't be long before they discovered what shouldn't exist. Vampires. Werewolves. Ghosts. La Llorona. El Cucuy. Fairies. Then humans would do to us what they did to the dodo birds, the passenger pigeon, and most of the Native Americans.

Habla de Compromisos, de Responsabilidades, de Valentías, de Desafíos, del Buen Sentido, de la Integridad, de la Grandeza, es decir, de cosas de las que en la Sociedad Mediática Actual no se habla en forma alguna porque intentar elevar constantemente el nivel de exigencia del ser humano se ha convertido en una ofensa grave a la condición humana. Hay demasiada gente que coloca el nivel de exigencia a ras de suelo "; pag. 12.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

El amor es uno de los elementos emblemáticos de la vida. Breve o extendido, espontáneo o minuciosamente construido, es de cualquier manera un apogeo en las relaciones humanas. Curiosamente, hasta en su controvertida obra, Schopenhauer no puede evitar una constancia esperanzada: «El amor es la compensación de la muerte; su correlativo esencial». Lo rescaté como epígrafe para esta antología.

La única interpretación es que el hombre puede ser infinitamente cruel con su semejante. Puede ser cruel sin conocer al prójimo, sin haberle visto el rostro ni haber sostenido su mirada. Puede ser cruel por decisión soberana y autónoma. Como si ese prójimo no fuera un espejo. Cuando destruye el espejo, se destruye a sí mismo.

Pero, hermanita. Dios es una mera creación del hombre. Un invento si se quiere prestigioso

Cuando el tipo reía, era como para ponerse a reflexionar sobre las imprevistas variantes de la imbecilidad humana.

Comprender no es justificar, sino darnos conciencia de que lo peor y lo mejor de todos los seres humanos está latente en nuestro interior. La parte más aterradora del verdugo es su semejanza potencial con nosotros mismos.