Quotes About Humanity

Hiçbir kusuru olmayan yerleri de insanlar? da sevmem. Gerçekten mükemmel bir insan?n hiç ilginç olmayaca??n? düÅŸünüyorum.

Bulmak istedikten sonra her insan?n içinde biraz iyilik vard?r. Bu iyiliÄŸi bulup geliÅŸtirmek de bir öÄŸretmenin görevidir.

almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.

Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering

He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

Cathedrals became houses of light, not of God, monuments to man's architectural inspiration, where humanity worshiped its own ingenuity and not God's presence.

Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.

Nothing new has ever happened to aq son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.

Growing up in this town, I had long ago learned that the savagery of a man named Mohammed was rarely questioned, but his humanity always had to be proven.

Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration.

How needy man is.

I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble, she said. They've certainly kept me humble.

Things are just put together wrong. There's so much shit in the world a man's gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he's careful or not.

It ain't a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while

I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.

Men are about as worthless a race of people as I've ever encountered.

I didn't know people had that much blood in them," Gus said. "I thought we was mostly bone inside." Call didn't admit it, but he had the same belief; but from what he had seen that morning, it seemed that people were really just sacks of blood with legs and arms stuck on them.

Now I look at this story and it seems to be about all of us.

Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

Jag ställer egentligen bara ett moraliskt krav på mänskligheten, men ett ganska strängt: att den skall älska mig.