Quotes About Humanity

Si-apoi, se gândi batrânul, toata lumea omoara pe toata lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul ma omoara în aceeasi masura în care ma tine în viata.

Que cosa mas mala es la guerra - What a horrible thing war is

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The

any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde

Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.

A Farewell to Arms To

Nul homme n'est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d'un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi. --Ernest Hemingway, "Pour qui sonne le glas"?

Er þér sama um líf og þjáningar annarrar mannveru? Þín að minstakosti. Þú ert kvikindi. Já. Ég hélt þú myndir hjálpa mér Hem. Ég myndi feginn vilja skjóta þig.

Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

I don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist he is. If he can show me how to operate on a heart so that I can cure a brother, or cure someone else, I don't give a damn what the man thinks; he has taught me something. And that is valuable to me. And that is valuable to others and man as a whole.

The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.

The message of all spirituality is that, in some mysterious way, we are all one—that therefore the joy and the sorrow of any one of us is the joy and the sorrow of all of us.

We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

Women with bare arms are not allowed into church, but they let naked Jews dig their own graves.

The course of the world constantly and inevitably frustrates our moral demands.

We cannot live unaffected by love. We are most alive when we find it, most devastated when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhumane when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue it.

We are most human when love is our motive.

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

Where there is no love, there is no value for life.

To give up on love is to choose a life that is less than human.

We all are flawed. If there was a perfect community, it would be ruined the moment I joined it.