Quotes About Humanity

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

The greatness of work is inside man.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

War is a defeat for humanity.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Istoria omului reprezinta o lupta continua intre instinct si inteligenta, intre ritmul involuntar al organismului si modelele autocreate ale constiintei.

My God—very literally, my God—we can't go on … having regular bowel movements … while creation happens!

Survivor—under what conditions?" "Any conditions. Adaptability, toughness, quickness—those are the things that count most." "I think kindness means a lot," said Sheila timidly. "It's a luxury, I'm afraid, though of course it's such luxuries that make us human," said Mandelbaum. "Kindness to whom? Sometimes you just have to cut loose and get violent. Some wars are necessary.

MAN "behaving" like ROBOTS and ROBOTS "evolving" like MAN.............we are fast reaching the point of convergence of the two.

Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai.

How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)

Kalau kemanusiaan tersinggung, semua orang yang berperasaan dan berfikiran waras ikut tersinggung, kecuali orang gila dan orang yang berjiwa kriminal, biarpun dia sarjana

Cerita tentang kesenangan selalu tidak menarik. Itu bukan cerita tentang manusia dan kehidupannya , tapi tentang surga, dan jelas tidak terjadi di atas bumi kita ini".

Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.

Jangan anggap remeh si manusia, yang kelihatannya begitu sederhana; biar penglihatanmu setajam elang, pikiranmu setajam pisau cukur, perabaanmu lebih peka dari para dewa, pendengaran dapat menangkap musik dan ratap-tangis kehidupan; pengetahuanmu tentang manusia takkan bakal bisa kemput.

Barang siapa mempunyai sumbangan pada kemanusian dia tetap terhormat sepanjang jaman, bukan kehormatan sementara. Mungkin orang itu tidak mendapatkan sesuatu sukses dalam hidupnya, mungkin dia tidak mempunyai sahabat, mungkin tak mempunyai kekuasaan barang secuwil pun. Namun umat manusia akan menghormati karena jasa-jasanya.