Quotes About Humanity

Tiap mata murah, saudara, dan jiwa tiga kali lebih murah. Dan bertambah banyak Amerika mendatangkan peluru, bertambah turun jiwa manusia.

Pada bangsa-bangsa yang telah maju, setiap perbuatan yang melanggar kemanusiaan dirasainya seakan melanggar dirinya sendiri, sekali pun perbuatan itu terjadi ribuan mil dari tempatnya dan di tengah-tengah bangsa lain. Apalagi bila terjadi di dalam tubuh bangsanya sendiri.

Para dewa mengejawantahkan diri pada dunia melalui syaktinya, ketidakbijaksanaan manusia mengejawantahkan diri dalam kerusuhan lingkungannya.

Gelar itu dipersembahkan pada manusia oleh manusia, maka bukan tanpa alasan.

Tak ada yang tahu apakah prajurit-prajurit itu Syiwa atau Wisynu, boleh jadi bahkan Buddha. Tidak ada yang mengetahui hati manusia secara tepat.

Jawa dan manusianya hanya sebuah pojokan tidak terlalu penting dalam keseluruhan bumi manusia.

Para dewapun tak jarang belajar dari manusia, bahkan dibebaskan oleh manusia.

We all have to accept reality, yes, that's true. But just to accept reality and do nothing else, that is the attitude of human beings who have lost the ability to develop and grow, because human beings also have the ability to create new realities. And if there are no longer people who want to create new realities, then perhaps the word progress should be removed altogether from humankind's vocabulary.

Perbudakan tidak aku benarkan. Siapapun tidak dibenarkan untuk menjadikan saudaranya sendiri budak dan bukan saudaranya sendiri menjadi budak.

Tak ada manusia hidup tanpa persahabatan dan kebaikan, karena yang bukan demikian bukan manusia,

Yang tidak memerlukan Hyang Mahadewa juga tidak diperlukan olehnya. Tetapi hukumnya berjalan terus, dengan atau tanpa manusia.

Tak pernah ada perang untuk perang. Ada banyak bangsa yang berperang bukan hendak keluar sebagai pemenang. Mereka turun ke medan perang dan berguguran berkeping-keping seperti bangsa Aceh sekarang ini...ada sesuatu yang dibela, sesuatu yang lebih berharga daripada hanya mati, hidup atau kalah-menang.

It is when you stand by a person in his or her hour of crisis that you reveal your own humanity.

Everyone of us should constantly try to become more calm and stable by each passing day, as these are the qualities of any wise person. Whatever be the situation, our resilience should be such that we are always ready to face the consequences of any situation without fear. Getting better and better as a human being is what we all should work for.

Ceux qui, sournoisement, s'alarment d'un génocide au Burundi le font pour d'autres petits calculs que le souci de vérité & de fraternité

we are feelings and we have human beings

Up to the moment of this writing… the Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

Peace will come when it becomes irrelevant to strike out at people. When you see that it's striking out against your own genome.

Better remain jobless than work with a private organization that treats inhumanly and humiliates its employees.