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Quotes About Humanity

It makes me want to cry. Sometimes, when someone is nice to you for no reason but when you need it most, that happens.
~ Jo Knowles
What makes us human is so simple. What we choose to do with it is so complex.
~ Jo M. Sekimonyo
What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
~ Jo Walton
That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes?
~ Jo Walton
But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.
~ Jo Walton
Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.
~ Jo Walton
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
~ Jo Walton
Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.
~ Jo Walton
Do?ru, bu dünyada gerçekten de kötü ?eyler var; ama ayn? zamanda harika kitaplar da var.
~ Jo Walton
The devil doesn´t exit. That´s what I´d tell them if they asked me. The humanly human exists...the transit.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
É de notar que o ar vem do ar. De sofrer e amar, a gente não se desafaz.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Io vorrei decifrare le cose che sono importanti. E quel che sto raccontando non è una vita di uomo del sertão, sia pure jagunço, ma la materia che ne vien fuori. Vorrei capire a fondo la paura e il coraggio, e la voglia che spinge la gente a compiere tanti atti, a dare corpo al succedere. Quel che induce la gente a cattive azioni strane, è che uno si trova vicino a quel che è suo, di diritto, e non lo sa, non lo sa, non lo sa!
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Certo, per quello che Zé Bebelo aveva fatto; ma sbagliato per quello che Zé Bebelo era e non era. Chi sa davvero quello che è una persona? E piuttosto: ogni processo è sempre difettoso, perché quello che la gente giudica è il passato.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Antes foi uma coisa acontecida repentina: aquele alvoroço, na cavalhada geral. Aí o mundo de homens
~ João Guimarães Rosa
E a gente raivava alto, para retardar o surgir do medo — e a tristeza em crú — sem se saber por que, mas que era de todos, unidos malaventurados.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Naquele lugar existia uma mulher, por nome Maria Mutema, pessoa igual às outras, sem nenhuma diversidade.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
ninguém neste mundo presta, muito menos eu
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
~ Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
~ Joan Baez
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
~ Joan Baez
because of my deep-seated opinion that war itself is a crime; that the killing of one child, the burning of one village, the dropping of one bomb sinks us into such depths of depravity that there's no use bickering over the particulars.
~ Joan Baez
All people are alike when they sleep." Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146)
~ Joan Bauer
You've got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.
~ Joan Bauer
you've got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you've got to love the world, no matter how bad it gets." Boy,
~ Joan Bauer