Quotes About Humanity

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

Truly generous men are always ready to feel compassion when their enemy's misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred.

Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.

And now, said the unknown, farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good — now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked! At these words he gave a signal, and, as if only awaiting this signal, the yacht instantly put out to sea.

for men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.

And now, said the unknown, farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good--now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

Well, so much the better for him,' said the inspector. 'When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.' As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.

Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me." "Bravo

Il faut le malheur pour creuser certaines mines mystérieuses cachées dans l'intelligence humaine. (p. 174)

it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!" "What

but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately

Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.

Ah! —dijo Montecristo—, es uno de los orgullos de nuestra pobre humanidad el creerse cada hombre más desgraciado que cualquier otro que gime y llora a su lado.

Oh, man, man—race of crocodiles

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

adiós, bondad, humanidad y gratitud… , adiós, todos los sentimientos que ennoblecen el alma. He querido ocupar el puesto de la Providencia para recompensar a los buenos… , ahora cédame el suyo el Dios de las venganzas para castigar a los malvados.

Vivam pois e sejam felizes, filhos do meu coração, e nunca esqueçam que até ao dia em que Deus se dignar desvendar o futuro ao homem, toda a sabedoria humana residirá nestas palavras: Esperar e ter esperança.

Sólo tengo dos adversarios, y no vencedores, porque con la constancia los sujeto, y son el tiempo y el espacio. El tercero, y el más terrible, es mi condición de hombre mortal.