Quotes About Humanity

It's a gruesome thing that man learns only by what he has between the one leg and the other! Oh, that short dangle! We corrupt mortality by its industry.

Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean.

The Seventh Symphony had been planned before the war and consequently, it simply cannot be seen as a reaction to Hitler's attack. The 'invasion theme' has nothing to do with the attack. I was thinking of other enemies of humanity when I composed the team.

A ?ovek valjda traje dok traje u drugome.

Nije li, ipak, ljudska glupost mati svakog zla na ovom svetu?

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

Svet je odvratan prosto zato što su ljudi u ogromnoj ve?ini najobi?niji glupaci. I sve su nesre?e odatle. Iz gluposti.

I bez stvarnog zna?aja nam je što je vasiona beskraj i krug, jer mi verujemo da smo u njenom centru. I sa svim svojim napretkom i znanjima, mi se u sebi nismo promakli od tog privida, te svoje jedne ta?kice u središtu plavog prostora. Jer bilo šta da uradimo, bilo gde da stignemo, uvek smo u središtu, uvek smo sebi u središtu, svagda nam se horizonti savijaju u krug. Kad bismo bar videli da je taj krug nama jedino vidna i znana - ve?nost. Ve?nost kojoj ne pripadamo.

Rat je najgori ljudski posao, Ivane. Uvek zlo ratuje. Ponekad taj strašni posao pokre?e pravda. Neko ga radi da bi živeo. Mi Srbi radimo za život. Idi s voljom da živiš. I s verom pošao, sine.

I couldn't stand to be alone, yet I didn't want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Man is a problem solving, problem creating entity. He creates problems. He solves the problems. This is what he does. This is how he lives.

His empathy ties him to the root of others' emotions. It was part of what he chose to have.

the evolution of the heart and compassion is what is missing technically. Humans have proceeded to technological advances before without heart balance, without heart evolution. And it has been disastrous. So we are here to evolve heart first until the heart is aligned with this knowledge.

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

La desdicha es grande, pero el hombre es aún más grande que la desdicha (citando Tagore)

Of all things, only the heart is measure. And those who have hearts are always the hope of mankind.

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.