Quotes About Humanity

Your authority in part comes from your authenticity, the authenticity of your struggles and your flawed humanity.

I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

Humanity Is A Plague. We're A Disgusting, Narcissistic, Selfish Parasite, And The World Would Be A Better Place Without Us.

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.

Fucked up is the universal condition of man. We were crossing to Oregon behind a cranky team of mules—the very definition, the apotheosis, the pinnacle, of fucked up. I woke in the morning to harness mules, fucked up, obsessed all day on making more miles, fucked up, and collapsed onto my squalid wagon matteess every night, fucked up. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

We are fundamentally social creatures whose survival and well-being depend on our interactions with particular, embodied, others.

When the cruelty of what one human could inflict on another stopped bothering them, it would be time to quit

I do not boast the historical fact of belonging to a human race that has suffered a lot as some kind of medal, nor have I ever tried to derive moral advantages or reparations.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation' (I, iv).

I came without my consent into this perverse world; since I am here, I am a citizen of the universe; I am a cosmopolitan, like Diogenes, I embrace with my love the entire human race. All mortals together, yellow, black, and white are everywhere my neighbours, are everywhere my relatives.]

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. . . . Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us; the other softens us. They go together. —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. . . . Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us; the other softens us. They

Every human being on earth has two things in common. Death and a broken heart.