Quotes About Humanity

Vazgeçiyorum, bütün insanl???n önünde e?ilerek özür diliyorum; beni yanl??l?kla ç?kard?lar sahneye.

?nsan yap?s?ndaki çeli?kiler, onun ne ölüme ne de sonsuzlu?a bir türlü dayanamad???n? gösteriyor. Sonsuzluk da ölüm kadar ürkütücü bir gerçektir.

Yüzlerce insan, binlerce insan... ço?u ne kadar önemsiz, ne kadar silik. ?çlerinden biri Selim olamaz m?yd?? Milyonlar?n içinde sadece bir Selim. Bu tabiat kanunlar? ne kadar insafs?z, diye dü?ündü. Kime zarar? dokunur bunun? Hepsinin eli, aya??, ba?? var... Selim gibi. Ne olur bu kadar el, ayak, ba? bir araya gelse de sadece bir tanecik Selim ç?karsalar aralar?ndan; ne olur bir tane Selim olsa.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. ... Like the Nazis, antebellum whites had known quite a bit about torture - quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn.

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been.

I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make

I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.

The differences you perceive between Humans—between groups of Humans—are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?

After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything more than survive and continue its cycle of errors.

That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally.

Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?

My ancestors in this hemisphere were, by law, chattel slaves. In the U.S., they were chattel slaves for two and a half centuries—at least 10 generations. I used to think I knew what that meant. Now I realize that I can't begin to imagine the many terrible things that it must have done to them. How did they survive it all and keep their humanity? Certainly, they were never intended to keep it, just as we weren't.

He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

Down on Earth," she said carefully, "there are no people left to draw lines on maps and say which sides of those lines are the right sides. There is no government left. No human government, anyway.

Human beings are more alike than different—damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world.

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make something more of ourselves.

More people die           Of unenlightened self-interest           Than of any other disease.