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Quotes About Humanity

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.
~ Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
~ Alice Hoffman
To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.
~ Alice Hoffman
Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.
~ Alice Hoffman
No one can accept the indiscriminate order of cruelty.
~ Alice Hoffman
I think that people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.
~ Alice Hoffman
Mrs. Farrell told me that no man was a monster, not even Heathcliff, and that most people's misdeeds were rooted in the treatment they'd received in the world.
~ Alice Hoffman
Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person?
~ Alice Hoffman
Há segredos que devem ser guardados e a maioria deles tem relação com as angústias do coração humano, pois a tristeza expressada em voz alta é uma tristeza vivida duas vezes.
~ Alice Hoffman
let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.
~ Alice Hoffman
The imperfect were often angry
~ Alice Hoffman
I'm sorry this happened to you, Marie,' he said wearily. 'There's a lot of cruelty in the world.' And then he waved his hat to indicate the paths through the park and all the people on them. 'You'll be lucky if this is your worst taste of it.
~ Alice McDermott
The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic.
~ Alice McDermott
Mr. Persichetti called his patients God's mistakes. He pressed
~ Alice McDermott
Le monde manifeste autant d'indifférence aux amoureux qu'aux pauvres et aux malchanceux.
~ Alice McDermott
Thousands more were being born today, being conceived—women with their knees raised all over the world. Mrs.
~ Alice McDermott
Who can know the heart of a man?
~ Alice McDermott
Nobody is born evil.
~ Alice Miller
It is above all the children already born that have a right to life—a right to coexistence with adults in a world in which, with or without the help of the church, violence against children has been unequivocally outlawed. Until such legislation exists, talk of the right to life remains not only a mockery of humanity but a contribution to its destruction.
~ Alice Miller
When two human beings divided by hostility are both, at the same time, mystified—no, frightened—by the same apparition, there is a bond that springs up between them, and they find themselves united in the most unexpected way. United in their humanity—that is the only way I can describe it. We parted almost as friends.
~ Alice Munro
To be made of flesh was humiliation.
~ Alice Munro
The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.
~ Alice Munro
Ch?ng ph?i h?u h?t con ng??i ai cÅ©ng c?m th?y th?, không lúc này thì cÅ©ng lúc kia? Cô Ä'Æ¡n và b?t h?nh?
~ Alice Munro
El Mundo me considera un Monstruo y no tengo nada en contra de eso, aunque de paso podría decir que a los que sueltan bombas o queman ciudades o matan de hambre o asesinan a cientos de miles de personas normalmente no se los considera Monstruos sino que les llueven medallas y honores, pues solo los actos contra pocas personas se consideran malos y terribles. Lo cual no es una excusa sino una simple observación.
~ Alice Munro