Quotes About Humanity

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Kuka käsittää tämän maailman rakennusta? Ei ihmislapsi, joka on typerä ja tyhmä kuin määkivä jäärä. Mutta parasta ottaa päivä tultuansa, sallia sen mennä mentyänsä, käyköön sitten puuhun tai mäntyyn. Täällä ollaan vaan.

E' uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed essere odiati, senza conoscersi.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.

I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years.

We accept without question that we–human beings– are the center of the universe. Talk about hubris. But when a woman says, 'I love you', that won't go through our skulls.

if there´s a beast, maybe he´s just a regular guy with a skin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.

I acknowledge the privilage of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars--caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.

Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us!

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

Whenever possible, he fought against the idea of collective guilt, even though it was an unpopular stand immediately after the war.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

It's nothin' to me, he said. We're none of us made right for this world. But we're still here, aren't we? And

Socialism with a human face.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

It was so wonderful to find people who were, well, like people should be.