Quotes About Humanity

There had been no repose for Europe yet—incessant tribal changes; a surging mass of humanity pouring from one land into another. The troubled continent was a great, seething caldron, from which was to emerge a new civilization.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not only those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.

We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask him to be more than mortal.

Máquina» es un término periodístico. Los términos inexactos como ese forman parte de la psicosis de la guerra. Las personas no son máquinas, aunque quieran serlo. Hay que empezar en alguna parte. ?Pero mientras tanto muchas personas inocentes van a sufrir. ?Lo sé, y eso es precisamente el quid de la cuestión. Podría decirse, y es cierto, que la guerra es como un bumerang y resulta imposible garantizar la seguridad de nadie a la larga.

Comprendió cómo es posible idealizar a las personas por conveniencia propia mientras se pisotean sus debilidades humanas como si fueran tierra.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars. How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

There is always reason to care. There is always reason to give. It is what we are here to do.

Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us and grants us permission to fumble, and not know, and fail, and also to take pleasure in the small triumphs of our days.

perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something from it, and to give something back.

Am I ultimately alone? How many of us have asked that question—drunk or sober—when we've wondered if there was a God or when we've decided that there was none? And the universe reels around us, more vast than we could begin to comprehend and more apparently empty. But it's only when we overlook the fairly obvious fact that we are human beings on a planet packed with human beings that we can entertain the fairly self-indulgent idea that we are, in fact, alone.

There is always going to be bad in the world. I think that is what makes being good so important.

My prayer is that before they die, all people know that they are loved

So let God know what you're doing just by doing it or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

Now I don't know where you come from if you think that you deserve a trophy, or a parade or are even guaranteed a thank-you for doing what's good and what's right to others, and being kind to them and respectful but in life, you probably will not get these things. But that's not why we we ought to do good we ought to do good, not because it's special or extra, but because it's the minimum of what we owe to one another.

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

National sovereignty is not a license to commit crimes against humanity or genocide. The Rohingya and all of Myanmar's people, in fact the entire world, is looking at you to take action.