Quotes About Humanity

A civilization worthy of that name will always feel guilty toward Man and that is, precisely, what makes it a civilization." Pascal, probably. It's always Pascal with the French, when it's not La Rochefoucauld. Aristocratic bastards.

That might be, but that's exactly where betrayal of human values begins: when the approach to science is merely scientific.

Tout ce que je veux dire, c'est que si les hommes cédaient toujours à ce qu'il y a en eux de plus humain, il y a longtemps qu'ils ne seraient plus des hommes.

He gave up. It was no use. She wasn't listening. He was finding himself in a situation as old as mankind itself: reason against superstition.

Žinoma, galime toli nuklysti, bet juk negali r?pintis vien savimi pa?iu, taip visai sukvail?si. Galvodamas apie Kambodž? ir panašius dalykus, mažiau galvoji apie save pat?. Kai nepakankamai galvoji apie kitus, tada per daug galvoji apie save, <...>.

Une idée était venue depuis longtemps se loger dans mon esprit dont j'ai eu beaucoup de mal à me débarrasser par la suite et peut-être ne m'en suis-je jamais débarrassé entièrement. Les nazis étaient humains. Et ce qu'il y avait d'humain en eux, c'était leur inhumanité.

Amo tutti i popoli, ma nessuna nazione. Sono un patriota, non un nazionalista." "Che differenza c'è?" "Il patriottismo è amare la propria gente; il nazionalismo è odiare gli altri.

You know, Chavez, what Kaiser Wilhelm said after he had caused the death of millions? He said: 'Ich habe das nicht gewollt.' I didn't want THIS to happen. A worthy epitaph for mankind.

The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.

Quelque chose a été enfermé en moi, par erreur, dans la peau d'un homme.

No one has ever managed to resolve the contradiction there is in wanting to defend something human in the company of men.

It's strange, he thought, how beautiful human hands can be in spite of what they do.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

sokoote donafare adamaro beham nazdik mikone /

A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages.

Zijn jullie kinderen van Goethe of van Atilla voeren jullie oorlog tegen de legers of tegen de mensheid, dood de mensen maar respecteer hun werken!

Above all race questions, which are for the most part a mask behind which pride crouches and the interests of the financial or aristocratic classes dissemble, there is a law of humanity, eternal and universal, of which we are all the servants and guardians; it is that of the right of a people to rule themselves. And he who violates shall be the enemy of all.

We cannot stop the war, but we can make it less bitter. There are medicines for the body. We need medicines for the soul, to dress the wounds of hatred and vengeance by which the world is being poisoned.

Ach, bývají v životÄ› chvíle... ÄŒlovÄ›k se stydí, že je ?lovÄ›kem...

he was simply a man who had gone even further into loneliness than others - and that's a real exploit, by the way; where breaking records in loneliness is concerned, we're all champions in the field. ..........he continually repeats: "dogs are not enough anymore. People feel so damned lonely, they need company, they need something bigger, stronger, to lean on, something that can really stand up to it all. Dogs aren't enough; what we need is elephants.......

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Jesus was no cold Superman—he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.

In a closer scrutiny of the lives of certain Christians we may be impressed by the discovery of a close connection with a saint. The relationship to the saints is wholesome and fundamentally natural and right. Admittedly, they were only human beings, but they have entered into the mystery of God and the new creation is completed in them. The believer does not seek in them great personalities, but rather God's witnesses in whom God has been fulfilled.