Quotes About Humanity

Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Mankind aspires to comfort. To disturb life is to take the road of genuine desperation.

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

Mensen zijn dwaze wezens, die graag willen dat anderen weten wie zij werkelijk zijn.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not compare to the extraordinary tenacity of human beings, the way of human life, the presentiment of approaching death, the existence of love, the brilliant coruscations of light and the dark scars of our lives, to say nothing of the incomprehensible form of the cosmos and the overwhelming mysteries of space, time, distance.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins.

I'm made from remnants of flesh and blood And leftovers of philosophies.

When humanity will reach its goal, regarding the success of the bodies, namely they will reach the perfect level of love for one another, then all the bodies will unite to one body and one heart, and only then all the hoped for happiness at its highest peak, will be revealed to humanity.

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

They tell me, shaking their heads: "You should be kinder. You are somehow furious". I used to be kind. It didn't last long.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.