Quotes About Humanity

Yiddish mensch becomes a clear approbative, a man of honor and integrity, but it also means a real, a genuine person, someone who is even possibly flawed but has known travail, yet has come through not only

The world is like that boat, tossed by the storms of greed and hatred and fear.

Ask yourself how many of the billions of inhabitants of this planet have any idea of how rare it is to have been born as a human being.

This great humanity has said 'enough', it will not soon forget Che Guevara.

that, when it comes to humanity, "the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.

To pray for their safety was to pray for the death of other young men he did not even know.

She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy earth!

Neki vannak problémái? Mit szóljak én? – Daneeka Doki lassú, gyászos szipogással folytatta. – Á, én nem panaszkodom. Tudom, hogy háború van. Tudom, hogy egy csomó embernek szenvedni kell majd értünk, hogy megnyerjék nekünk a háborút. De miért kell nekem ezek között lennem?

Dehogynem haldoklik. Mindahányan haldoklunk.

Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, t?nÅ'dött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat elÅ'tt, és Å' mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.

Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran. The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!

Az eszmények jók, de az emberek néha nem olyan jók.

Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? If they pricked him, didn't he bleed? And if he was tickled, didn't he laugh? It

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them.

no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.

Kai dvasios nebelieka, žmogus virsta šiukšle.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself. "Why me?" was his constant lament, and the question was a good one.