Quotes About Humanity

I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless. I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.

Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?

By practicing compassion, you destroy all those artificial barriers and you truly understand that we all bleed red.

We live in such an alienated and busy culture that the simple act of genuinely smiling at somebody is quite rare on a day-to-day basis.

We do not like perfection. It's intimidating, distant, and somewhat off-putting. Vulnerable people are relatable people, and it's what makes us approachable and human. They

Compassion, in an ideal sense, is your ability to put yourself in other people's shoes regardless of what they look like, regardless of what they believe, regardless of whether they believe in God or not, or which god they believe in, and regardless of whether they're male, female, or patriotic. As long as they're human beings, the ideal vision of compassion is being able to feel other people's pain.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

Musee de l'Homme.

Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!

Life was so full of irony that he found himself asking if it was nothing more than a trick played on humanity by a Grand Illusionist with a black sense of humour.

I am not, as you will have observed, a man greatly enamored of his fellow human beings. I do not enter lightly into the foibles and whimsicalities of others, I do not suffer fools gladly, I seem able, in conversation, only to needle or be needled. My relationships, as a result, are few, and those few are tenuous, prickly sorts of arrangements, altogether lacking in the spontaneity and intimacy for which humans, I'm told, have an instinctive need. I am aware of no such instincts myself.

Altri, come lui, proprio prima della mia nascita, avevano patito pene di ogni sorta per consentire a noi di provare soltanto piccoli dispiaceri.

War makes monsters out of men.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

For who needs devils when you have men?

Because humans are complicated beasts," the monster said.

Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.

What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are.

But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

People break, I guess. Everyone.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true