Quotes About Humanity

Si cuarenta mil niños sucumben diariamente en el purgatorio del hambre y de la sed si la tortura de los pobres cuerpos envilece una a una a las almas y si el poder se ufana de sus cuarentenas o si los pobres de solemnidad son cada vez menos solemnes y más pobres ya es bastante grave que un solo hombre o una sola mujer contemplen distraídos el horizonte neutro pero en cambio es atroz sencillamente atroz si es la humanidad la que se encoge de hombros.

De todas aquellas manos, la suya era la única que transmitía la vida.     Sábado

Siempre hay alguien que está peor, como concluía Esopo. Y hasta peorísimo, como concluyo yo.

qué curioso, qué extraño sería para nosotros otro tipo de vida, con discusiones, llantos, estallidos.

nuestra luna y su miel se llevaron a cabo con una praxis semejante a la de hoy ya que la humanidad ha innovado poco en este punto realmente cardinal

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.

Es curioso como a veces se puede llegar a ser tan inocentemente cruel.

La literatura quizá hace a los seres humanos más aptos para la infelicidad, porque despierta unos apetitos y deseos que no pueden cumplirse, pero enriquece la sensibilidad de las personas y las da una comprensión mayor del mundo. Los hace…sentir mucho más aptos para la libertad.

Es más fácil imaginar la muerte de una persona que la de cien o mil...Multiplicado, el sufrimiento se vuelve abstracto. No es fácil conmoverse por cosas abstractas.

Cuando creí que iba a perder la razón ante tanto sufrimiento. Así descubrí que un ser humano no puede vivir sin creer.

The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)

Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.

To me, real love, the move from power to love, involves immense suffering. Any creative work comes from that level, where we share our sufferings, just the sheer suffering of being human. And that's where the real love is.

Number six: Zach never tailgates, ever, no matter how slowly the car in front of him is going. Because the driver in front of you could be anyone--an organ donor, a war hero, a man who's just lost his best friend, a kid with a new license doing her best, said Cornelia. Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.

What she came to was that even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.

how monstrous the people you loved could be.

If people don't change their minds, there's no hope for the human race.

Kindness is the currency of humanity. Even in the camps one found it. Debased and broken, but one found it.

In our law, a slave was a thing.

It's how it all begins. "You Jews" this, "you Jews" that. And when you have lumped all Jews together, you can justify anything you do to them. There are no longer good Jews, bad Jews, clever Jews, stupid Jews, old Jews, young Jews. There are just Jews. But I am a German, just like you, whether you like it or not.

Kindness is the currency of humanity.

the human heart is allus the same. Sorrer strikes the same all over. Hit makes a different kind o' mark in different places.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men