Quotes About Humanity

? gyvenim? žvelgiu kaip ? didžiul? estafet?, kurioje kiekvienas m?s? prieš pargri?damas privalo kuo toliau nunešti išš?k? b?ti žmogumi <...>

Bruno, someday you will die of kindness, tolerance and gentleness. Well, given the options, it isn't a bad way to go.

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.

Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.

They died... Have you ever seen a baby elephant lying on its side, with its trunk inert, gazing at you with eyes in which there seem to have taken refuge all those so highly praised human qualities of which humanity is so largely devoid?

Monsieur Hamil, est-ce qu'on peut vivre sans amour? - Oui, dit-il, et il baissa la tête comme s'il avait honte.

J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.

L'ironia è una dichiarazione di dignità. È l'affermazione della superiorità dell'essere umano su quello che gli capita.

Seul l'Océan dispose des moyens vocaux qu'il faut pour parler au nom de l'homme.

I am very old,' he said gravely. He added, as a matter of course: 'I'm glad to die in Africa.' 'And why?' 'Because this is where mankind began. The cradle of humanity is in Nyasaland. It's been pretty well proved.' 'Odd reason.' 'One dies better at home.' 'Yet another one, I thought, who's trying to find a home on earth.

Duygularda korkunç bir ölümlülük var.

Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik tod?l, kad visada m?gau gyv?nus.

Moi ce qui m'a toujours paru bizarre, c'est que les larmes ont été prévues au programme. Ça veut dire qu'on a été prévu pour pleurer. Il fallait y penser. Il y a pas un constructeur qui se respecte qui aurait fait ça.

J'ignore ce que c'est une dépression nerveuse, parce que pour moi c'est l'état normal de l'humanité." - Vingt questions à Romain Gary - L'affaire homme

Millions of people live in pain and anguish throughout the world, and it doesn't leak. I mean, it doesn't reach anyone. It isn't catching, as you say.

Amava appassionatamente l'umanità intera, ma in fondo non aveva nessuno. credeva alla sventura perché era solo. Per la speranza bisogna essere in due. Tutte le leggi dei grandi numeri cominciano con questa certezza.

Si dice che la cosa più tremenda del nazismo sia il suo lato disumano. Sì. Ma ci si deve arrendere all'evidenza: questo lato disumano fa parte dell'umano. Fintantoché non si riconoscerà che la disumanità è cosa umana, si resterà in una pietosa bugia.»

E se il nazismo non fosse una mostruosità disumana? Se fosse 'umano'? Se fosse una confessione, una verità nascosta, rimossa, camuffata, negata, acquattata in fondo a noi stessi, ma che finisce sempre per tornar fuori?

To the people, Morel was the hero of a cause that had nothing to do with nations and political ideologies, a cause that had nothing to do with Africa and touched what was deepest in them — a secret rancor — a confused dream of being able one day to emerge victorious from the difficulty of being a man. They were staking a claim to respectful and decent treatment.

Madame Rosa voyait que les gens devenaient de plus en plus gentils avec elle et ce n'est jamais bon signe.

It's absolutely essential that man should manage to preserve something other than what helps to make soles for shoes or sewing machines, that he should leave a margin, a sanctuary, where some of life's beauty can take refuge and where he himself can feel safe from his own cleverness and folly. Only then will it be possible to begin talking of civilization.

and one evening she came across him in the middle of the Maidaguri road, where he lay, his face in the dust, in the midst of a group of natives who were laughing with that light, eternal laughter which is their way of enduring all things.

I can't help it. I've always been a philanthropist. For the legitimate aspirations of the peoples, arms and explosives were necessary, and for the legitimate aspirations of the human soul, drugs were necessary. Always in the front rank of the benefactors of humanity, you see.

Maybe the Nazis told the truth about us. Maybe the Nazis were the truth. We shouldn't forget the truth. The rest, just beautiful tiful lies about ourselves. Perhaps do — to sing another beautiful lie.