Quotes About Humanity

Forse, disse a Norman, leggo perché sento di dover indagare la natura degli esseri umani.

La storia è il commento alle varie e continue incapacità degli uomini.

Kindness is scarce in the world

he took her in his arms and cradled her; offering her not God's comfort but his own, merely human, consolation.

Aloha means to see the 'uhane—the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it—in everyone you meet. I've done my best to live up to that.

No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. "But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien's name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

When you are excited about reaching a goal, you are connected to the source of life. Many people judge or dismiss passion as being self-indulgent, but authentic passion moves us to fulfill our soul's mission, attract abundance and success, and serve humanity.

If you have space for a flawed person to do great things and succeed, you give yourself the same permission. On a human level, we are all flawed. On a divine level, we are all perfect.

To err is human; to really screw up, you need a computer

You stink of humanity,' he murmured, 'but I'll love you just the same.

Impossible for me to harm or, by omission of action, allow to be harmed a human being.

I've lived for over one thousand years, son. Long enough to see the same eyes in different people.

Two surviving human beings on the entire planet, Ruslan thought, and they can't stand each other. A fitting metaphor for the entire species.

But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.

If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.

It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.

there are many situations in which we lose something of our humanity by militarizing discussion and debate;

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have turned out differently.

It may seem strange, perhaps even socially archaic, but I strongly believe that people ought to reach out to each other in this way, neighbor to neighbor, stranger to stranger, because our failure to do so has warped the social fabric into one of conjoined loneliness and all its attached sufferings.

Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind of love? I wanted to follow them, to touch them, to tell them of my happiness. I wanted to whisper to them: 'This is it. This is it'.

If time and the passage of events are the same, then times move barely at all. It time and events are the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.