Quotes About Humanity

We asked ourselves whether, in these days of equality in which we live, there are classes unworthy the notice of the author and the reader, misfortunes too lowly, dramas too foul-mouthed, catastrophes too commonplace in the terror they inspire.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

Man is made, not simply in the image of God, as though the divine image were reproduced in man, but rather, man is made as the image of God. He is like God.

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

I love humanity but I hate people.

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

Ninguno estamos libres de que se abata sobre nosotros la tragedia. Sucede constantemente.

La pregunta es esta, mi amigo: ¿hay tantos hijos de puta como uno cree, o la influencia de los hijos de puta sobre sus semejantes es mayor que la de la gente buena, y es por eso que uno cree que son más que los que en realidad son?

Porque una de las grandes cualidades que tiene el fútbol es su capacidad de construir un mundo aparte dentro del mundo. Y mientras la pelota rueda los límites del universo son los laterales y la línea de fondo, y no hay otra frontera que las de las áreas y el mediocampo. Y la vida no tiene más extensión que la cancha. Y el género humano es la suma exacta de tus compañeros y tus adversarios. Y entonces puede cambiar la escala de las cosas.

La brevedad o la prolongación de la vida de un ser humano depende sobre todo del caudal de dolor que esa persona se ve obligada a soportar.

Creí entender que lo que a veces nos conmueve del dolor ajeno es el temor atávico que ese dolor nos transite a nosotros.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

No creo en el arte que no nace de la necesidad del hombre de abrir su corazón.

The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone?

Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.