Quotes About Humanity

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)

Mozart nunca escribió para conmover a las masas, sino para tocar el corazón de cada ser humano en su intimidad

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Lloraba porque no tenía zapatos hasta que conocí a un hombre que no tenía pies»?

Why else do you think the world destroyed itself?' 'It was an accident!' 'Yes, and who caused the accident? Men!

I almost wish that anyone were here, so I could just talk about anything. I know Harry used to accuse me of being anti-social (because of my not liking parties and shutting myself away painting), but it is a very dreadful and isolating experience not to have exchanged one single word with another human being for as long as I have.

His view of human nature is more jaundiced (I think that is the word) than mine.

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

I've noticed that in films about holocausts and disasters and such it's always a young girl and an old man, right at the end, who have to get together for the sake of the future. I don't think I could do that, not with an old man, though maybe I could if it was all there was.

A people, Dr Alison had said, should be judged by the way they treated those weaker than themselves.

Bloody right I feel I'm entitled to express an opinion! What's going on here is a crime against humanity! What the hell do these women think they're playing at? Trying to rewrite history? Make it into her-story?

It seems so silly, everyone avoiding everyone. We are all just terrified, I suppose. But what is it that we are terrified of? Are we terrified of catching the disease or are we terrified of being knifed or strangled?