Quotes About Humanity

Llego el momento en que el sufrimiento de los demás ya no les bastó: tuvieron que convertirlo en espectáculo.

The entire human condition can be summed up like that: it could be worse.

La razza umana è cosi fatta che esseri sani di mente sarebbero pronti a sacrificare la loro giovinezza, il loro corpo, i loro amori, i loro amici, la loro felicità e molte altre cose ancora sull'altare di un fantasma chiamato eternità.

Si je vis seul, ce n'est pas tant par amour de la solitude que par haine du genre humain.

The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.

La finestra era la frontiera tra la luce orribile e la mirabile oscurità, tra i gabinetti e l'infinito, tra l'igienico e l'impossibile da lavare, tra lo sciacquone e il cielo. Finché esisteranno finestre, l'essere umano più umile della terra avrà la sua parte di libertà.

Aimes l'autrui comme tu aimes toi-même

La race humaine est ainsi faite que des êtres sains d'esprits seraient prêts à sacrifier leur jeunesse, leur corps, leurs amours, leurs amis, leur bonheur et beaucoup plus encore sur l'autel d'une fantasme appelé éternité

Aussi longtemps qu'il existerait des fenêtres, le moindre humain de la terre aurait sa part de liberté.

Très peu d'êtres humains sont réellement capables de suicide. Je suis comme la majorité, j'ai l'instinct de survie. Vous aussi.

Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

America's greatness is largely because of how we value the weakest among us.

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.