Quotes About Humanity

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

No one deserves cruelty of any kind. Not on their worst day." Just

When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.

To live is to suffer. To become fully human is to overcome suffering by allowing it to give us wings. Stop thinking about how your struggles are weighing you down, and start thinking, with humility, about how they can lift you up, and make you more compassionate and merciful. Changing your attitude can turn a burden into a blessing.

Kundera says that what makes a leftist (of any kind—socialists, communists, Trotskyites, left-liberals, and so on) a leftist is a shared belief that humanity is on a "Grand March" toward Progress: "The Grand March is the splendid march on the road to brotherhood, equality, justice, happiness; it goes on and on, obstacles notwithstanding, for obstacles there must be if the march is to be the Grand March.

Rather, they must keep their balance and stay focused on, in Havel's words, "the everyday, thankless, and never-ending struggle of human beings to live more freely, truthfully, and in quiet dignity.

When it comes to survival, maybe what's most important is simple fidelity: not by evangelizing people directly but by developing honest relations with one another—not looking for whether one is good or bad, or judging them by their ideology," says K?ska. "He was constantly observed by the secret police, parked right in front of his home. During the severely cold winters, he would bring them hot tea to warm them up. Because they were people, just like that.

Reducing the individual to her economic status or her racial, sexual, or gender identity is an anthropological error.

God has distributed his graces in such a way that we really need each other," said the priest. "Certainly there's the old man within me that craves individualism, but the more I live in community, the more I see that you can't have it and be faithful, or fully human.

El hombre es la medida de todas las cosas», dijo el filósofo griego Protágoras, una línea que bien podría describir también el espíritu de la nueva era que se abría en Europa.

We may not be able to communicate that meaning to a world gone insane, but as Orwell knew, simply by staying sane when everyone else is mad, we may hope to convey the human heritage.

Said Father Basil: "Saint Benedict takes the image that Scripture uses to speak about Christ himself. 'A bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench.' Humanity is already fragile. We need to treat it with care, with concern, with delicacy.

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

Others may have been burnt alive.

His heart was simply to big for his body.

at least a glimmer of hope that man can, if he will try, heal himself rather than destroy himself.