Quotes About Humanity

he's the first and only American President to ever address humanity's worst collective flaw, its total ignorance of reality.

Engel nennens Freude, Teufel nennens Pein, Menschen meinen, Es muss Liebe sein.

what that post-Holocaust life ought to be.23

Lewinska is one of three examples he describes; the others are of Jewish mothers at Auschwitz and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meisels and his Hasidim in Buchenwald; see To Mend the World, 216–219.

Consequently, no idea – no complete series of answers to why-questions – can ever be an object of human knowledge. Yet, Kant argues, without ideas morality would be impossible:

Kimse mükemmel de?ildir. Ba?kalar?n? affetti?inde asl?nda kendini affedersin.

?nsanlar bir sincaptan daha karma??kt?r. A?k?, nefreti, k?skançl??? hissederiz biz. Kimileri dürüsttür. Kimileri hayatlar?n? kurtarmak için yalanlar söyler. Ço?unlukla insanlar iyinin ve kötünün kar???m?d?r. Kimileri sevimlidir, kimileriyse aksi.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human condition.

People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.

I was able to give them a little candy and a little hope, but they were able to fill me up with so much more.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Being what we humans are, what else could we do but wrong?

Eu as prefera sa beau vin facut de omul care mi-l serveste, fiindca beau persoana insasi. Ma impregnez de fiinta ei, de iubirea ei.

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

we're the only species that looks into its mate's eyes during intercourse? It developed our concept of the other

I don't know why people keep trying to help me like this. They should be heading for the hills. Ali says I inspire loyalty but I seem to be taking kindness that I can never hope to repay. I am not a perfect human being. I'm a cynic and a pessimist and sometimes I feel as though I'm locked into this life by an accident of birth. But at times like this, a random act of kindness or the touch of another human being makes me believe I can be different, better, redeemed.

It was the most important moment in human history, the telling of the first lie. That's what separates us from the other animals. It has nothing to do with humans thinking on a higher plane or having easily available credit. We lie to each other. We deliberately mislead.

Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.