Quotes About Humanity

Ni la Pensée de l'Autre, ni la Pensée de la Différence ne devraient être possibles pour nous, parce que "rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger".

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

How many Americans lives have been lost in this brutal and needless war? How many Iraqi? How many names do we know on either side?

The military posts vengeance on their websites, and seeks publicity for their displays of inhumanity.

The eternal truths which are essential to human salvation, [Moses Mendelssohn] argues, must necessarily be accessible to all human beings, for it would be contrary to the goodness of God for him to reveal only to a portion of mankind such truth as is indispensable to all men.

You're just as shitty as we are

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

No act of kindness is too small to be worth doing, it might mean nothing to you but it can mean the world to another.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

War always brings death and destruction and that can never be a good thing

The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt, and one who understands the power of words

I've decided I don't want to play any more games treating human beings as objects. It's kind of sordid when you think about it, when you think it over.

Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?

I've never seen real dead people. Real dead people are different from dead people in stories. When you see real dead people you want to cry.

Aristotle says, "Now what is characteristic of any nature is that which is best for it and gives most joy. Such to man is the life according to reason, since it is that which makes him man.

En todas partes el hombre ha tomado conciencia de sí mismo como un animal de tránsito y lucha desesperadamente por afirmar su derecho a lo mejor del mundo durante el breve período que habita en él.

It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it