Quotes About Humanity

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

After all, who remembers the Armenians?

There is no tolerance in nature. Nature, if I take tolerance as a human concept, is the most intolerant thing that exists. It destroys everything that is unfit for life. Whatever is not willing to defend itself, or unable to do so, is destroyed, and we are only a speck of dust in this nature, Man is nothing more than a small bacteria or little bacillus on such a planet. When a creature attempts to escape these laws, it doesn't change the laws, rather, it ends its existence.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be that, to-day, more than ever before, the creative brain of the individual is indispensable?

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

EÄŸer Yahudi Marksizm'le bir zafer kazan?rsa ba??na giyeceÄŸi taç, insanl???n cenaze tac? olacakt?r, iÅŸte o zaman dünya, milyonlarca y?l önce olduÄŸu gibi boÅŸlukta üzerinde bir tek insan kalmadan dönecektir.

In confronting the theoretical falsity and absurdity of that [Social Democrat] doctrine with the reality of the phenomenon, I gradually acquired a clear picture of its aims... At such times, I was overcome by dark forebodings and fear of something evil. I saw before me a teaching inspired by egoism and hatred, mathematically calculated to win a victory-but the triumph of which would be a mortal blow to humanity.

La dottrina semita rifiuta il principio aristocratico della natura e pone al posto dell'eterno diritto della forze e della potenza, il numero col suo peso morto. Essa rinnega nell'uomo il valore della persona, mette in dubbio l'importanza del popolo e della razza, togliendo così all'umanità le premesse della sua conservazione e della sua cultura. Essa, se posta a base dell'universo, porterebbe alla fine in ogni ordine umano comprensibile alla ragione

Los pecados contra la sangre y la raza constituyen el pecado original de este mundo y el ocaso de una humanidad vencida.

I]t's not material qualities but rather ideal virtues alone that lead to the formation of a state. Only under the protection of those virtues can economic activities be developed... The material interests of humanity can prosper only in the shadow of heroic virtues. As soon as they become the primary considerations of life, they destroy the basis of their own existence.

Dietrich Eckart once told me that in all his life he had known just one good Jew : Otto Weininger, who killed himself on the day when he realised that the Jew lives upon the decay of peoples.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality?

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

Ideally, the business and the personal should never mix, but with human beings there's always going to be some blurring of the lines.

Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups, we teach children that only certain possibilities within them are livable; we teach them to hear only certain voices inside themselves, to feel only what we believe they ought to feel, to recognize only certain others as human.

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens

What did our Lord do by his Passion, Death, and Resurrection? He bridged that gulf which exists between God and man, a gulf which can only be bridged by him.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.