Quotes About Humanity

What seems to have been at work is the axiom, rarely made articulate, but deeply held by many people, that affronted nature will always avenge itself on guilty humanity.

As Gregg Easterbrook points out, "Many environmentalists consider the mere mention of adaptation Ito climate change) heretical because it implies that humanity can overcome global warming rather than be overcome by it, thus shifting the emphasis away from green guilt."37

Needless to say, dualistic thinking is nonetheless commonplace. In Western society, until recently, the overriding tendency was to accord a moral dignity to the "human" which elevated it above the merely natural. Of course this was done by associating humanity with an even higher realm inhabited by God, the angels, the saints, and so forth.

Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Churchill replied: "To fire willfully[23] on women and children is a disgraceful act, and I am surprised you do not order the officers responsible to be tried by court

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

War is a profane thing.

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.

The purest human act, and a model for all human acts, is an informative, creative act which transforms a world that is merely objective, set against us, in which we feel lonely and frightened and unwanted, into a home.

In this perspective what I like or don't like disappears, because there's nothing left of me as a separate person: as a reader of literature I exist only as a representative of humanity as a whole. We

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

A criminal cannot complain about wrongs done him because one treats him harshly and inhumanely. His offense was an entry into the realm of violence, power and tyranny. There is no restraint and proportion in that realm, and therefore he should not be surprised at the disproportion of its counter-reaction.

i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.

Si el biofísico y filósofo Pierre Lecomte du Noüy nos ha invitado a reflexionar sobre el hecho de que «en la escala de los seres, sólo el hombre realiza actos inútiles»,

También la religión, como la filosofía, debe convertirse en una opción de vida, debe transformarse en una manera de vivir. Así, ninguna religión y ninguna filosofía podrán nunca reivindicar la posesión de una verdad absoluta, válida para todos los seres humanos. Porque creer que se posee la única y sola verdad significa sentirse con el deber de imponerla, también por la fuerza, por el bien de la humanidad.

It's possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people's stories.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Life is full of sniffles sobs and smiles. With sniffles predominating.