Quotes About Humanity

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Pfui!

With everybody. Lots of them don't know it. Most of them up here wouldn't say that word, nigger, but they've got that word in them. Everybody. It's in them buried somewhere, but it's not dead. Some of them don't know they've got it and they wouldn't believe it, but it's there. That's what I knew I'd have to face when I sat there on the bed last night and tried to decide what to do.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life. You

Few of us have enough wisdom for justice, or enough leisure for humanity.

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Sai benissimo in cosa consista la vita, è fatta di qualità umane, tra le quali c'è un controllo dignitoso e intelligente degli appetiti che condividiamo con i cani. Un uomo non divora una carcassa o ulula su una collina dall'alba al tramonto; mangia cibo ben cucinato, se può permetterselo, e in quantità moderata, e adatta con saggezza i propri ardori alla convenienza.

Like doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and many others, I get my income from the necessities, the tribulations, and the misfortunes of my fellow beings.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

Minds are not changed merely through acquiring data or information (if that were the case it would take no effort to convince Americans that Obama is, in fact, a Christian). Rather, it is solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.

If you care about hundreds, you have to care about one." - Wraith

It was so much easier to knock down than build up: a city raised over millennia could be razed in a day; the life of a man ended in a second's crack. In years to come, Edmund and his children would know the names of planes and tanks and battles and invasions and recall with facility the atrocities of the age, the names of those who committed them. But would any of them be able to name a single repairer of the breach or fixer of broken walls?

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Philo of Alexandria (circa 20 BC–AD 50) PHILOSOPHER

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. - Mahatma Gandhi P.g16

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can.

In case you haven't noticed, people aren't nice,

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

avaro hasta el extremo de que si en vez de nacer hombre hubiera nacido reloj, por no dar no habría dado ni las horas,