Quotes About Humanity

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

The impotence of God is infinite.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

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Have we not seen many times indeed human beings who, poor and naked, prostrate themselves before all the phantoms of fear, and rather than follow the teaching of well-disposed demons, obey the commandments of cruel demiurges?

We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we'd like them to be.

Eu já não encontro tanto prazer, confesso, em ver essa gente elegante, depois que uma máquina pôs em movimento o fanatismo estúpido e a obtusa crueldade desses pequenos cérebros.

Os povos civilizados são como os cães de caça. Um instinto corrupto os incita a destruir sem proveito nem razão.

De toutes les définitions de l'homme la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

A caridade humana é o concurso de todos na produção e na partilha dos frutos. Ela é justiça, é amor, e os pobres a exercem melhor que os ricos.

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

Só dá verdadeiramente quem dá o próprio trabalho, a própria alma, o próprio gênio. E a excelsa oferenda de si mesmo a toda a humanidade tanto enriquece o doador quanto a comunidade.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take

Is not neorealism primarily a kind of humanism and only secondarily a style of film-making?

But does one not, when coming out of an Italian film, feel better, an urge to change the order of things, preferably by persuading people, at least those who can be persuaded, whom only blindness, prejudice, or ill-fortune had led to harm their fellow men?

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

O homem não é Deus. Cabe a nós fazer que seja pelo menos humano.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — romantic love and gunpowder.

Elle ne comprenait pas qu'une partie de ce peuple en haillons n'eût rien à faire en ce lieu. Comment Dieu pouvait-il choisir ceux-ci plutôt que ceux-là ? Ce Dieu des uns et pas des autres, comment l'admettre, comment le vivre ?