Quotes About Humanity

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

L'espèce humaine mourra de méchanceté.

Mais qu'avons-nous tous, pauvres humains, à vouloir nous serrer contre un autre corps ?

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I believe in one thing — that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.