Quotes About Humanity

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won.

there are so many unpunished crimes in the world; indeed, they cover an area so vast, so ancient, so broad and wide that, up to a point, what do we care if a millimetre more is added to it?

Vivir en el engaño es fácil, y aún más, es nuestra condición natural, y por eso no debería dolernos tanto'.

Sim, é ridículo que depois de tantos séculos de prática, e de incríveis avanços e inventos, não haja ainda uma maneira de saber quando alguém mente; é claro que isso nos beneficia e prejudica a todos por igual, talvez seja o único reduto de liberdade que nos resta.

la historia está demasiado llena de pequeños abusos y vilezas mayúsculas

Son demasiadas las vidas configuradas sobre el engaño o el error, seguramente la mayoría desde que el mundo existe

Lo dicen como si no fuera ese el destino de casi todos nosotros, como si eso no fuera lo que le espera a todo el mundo desde su nacimiento, pasar por la tierra sin que su presencia la altere lo más mínimo, como si todos fuéramos sólo adornos, figurantes de un drama o figuras de fondo inmóviles hasta la eternidad en una pintura, masa indistinguible y prescindible y superflua, conmutables e invisibles todos, todos nadie.

La vida no es contable, y resulta extraordinario que los hombres lleven todos los siglos de que tenemos conocimiento dedicados a ello, empeñados en contar lo que no se puede, sea en forma de mito, de poema épico, de crónica, anales, actas, leyenda o cantar de gesta, romances de ciego o corridos, de evangelio, santoral, historia, biografía, novela o elogio fúnebre, de película, de confesiones, memorias, de reportaje, da lo mismo.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one's identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But just because our existence may have arisen unintentionally and without purpose doesn't preclude meaning or purpose from emerging as a result of our interaction and collaboration. Meaning may not be a precondition for humanity as much as a by-product of it.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

But even if such a prediction were true, our inability to distinguish between a virtual reality simulation and the real world will have less to do with the increasing fidelity of simulation than the decreasing perceptual abilities of us humans.

We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed — those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone — it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.

The ideology of our own society is the most boorish and vulgar of all—we wish to enjoy total individual sexual freedom, so those who impede that (the unborn) are eliminated. Thus it is that every human ideology that strives sincerely for a better life ends up destroying life. Those ideologues who dream of a better humanity inevitably end up killing humans.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.