Quotes About Humanity

We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.

Ce qu'il y a de plus profond dans l'homme, c'est la peau.

La guerre, c'est le massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent et ne se massacrent pas.

all that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.

La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas.

La vie de l'intelligence constitue un univers lyrique incomparable, un drame complet où ne manquent ni l'aventure, ni les passions, ni la douleur, ni le comique, ni rien d'humain.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Dystopias are scary because you can see people struggling, but utopias are scarier because you can see that they stopped.

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

doesn't take long for man to mess up anything we get our hands on. Without God at the center, we eventually manage to make a mess of everything.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

Although it is so evident when you look at nature that there is incredible abundance, the united ego of mankind in mass hysteria about lack, rushes to destroy the planet in order to get its piece of the pie before it all "runs out.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

What's wrong with all of us, Bill? Can you tell me that?' 'Hell if I know', he said. 'We drink too much for starters. And we want too much, don't we?

What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human, Eden used to say. I didn't know what she meant then. My heart had been broken lots of times, and I was supposed to say thank you? Now, all these years later, I'm at least starting to see that she was really talking about the whole journey. That it's impossible to be alive and not get hurt sometimes, not if you're doing it right.

But what does it all add up to? What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human.

Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins.

Life is full of messes. Your mistakes aren't bigger than anyone else's.

Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human, Eden used to say. I didn't know what