Quotes About Humanity

Dört sene vard?r ki bir harbi umumi ç?km?? olup milyonlarca insan birbirini telef etmektedir. Tarihi be?eri dolduran bütün muharebeler, benli?ini öldürmesini bilmeyen insan?n bir gaye u?runa ölmesini ö?renmesi için Cenab?hakk?n ana verdi?i kanl? derslere benzer.

Ya?amak, yaralamak ve yaralanmakt?r; ama insanca.

Fakat bir taraftan da be?eri ihtiraslar?m?zda yenildikçe tabiat? özledi?imizi, ondan biraz kuvvet al?nca yeniden büyük kavgaya giri?ece?imizi anlam?yor de?ildim ve...

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to the soul as mooring cables to an airship. To cut them willingly and without regret is to know true emancipation, the kind that cannot be granted by constitutions, proclamations, manifestos. Yes

There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One

O come the time, and haste the day,When man shall man no longer crush,When Reason shall enforce her sway,Nor these fair regions raise our blush,Where still the African complains,And mourns his yet unbroken chains.

Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

We mortals can be fools, especially when mortal emotions rule over cool reason.

humanity can be transformed by power and by powerlessness. Underlying

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.

I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.

One of Allen Ginsberg's T-shirts said, "Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work. And what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?

Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin to study the individual deaths would consume a hundred lifetimes. Which is why one of our deepest instincts can be simply to record names – individual lives, equally specific, equally valuable – never emphasizing one for fear of disrespecting another: listing them, as it were on a single stone wall – and steering away from blame or analysis.

Hirschfeld did not regard homosexuality as immoral, and much of his work sought to establish the humanity of those with desires other than the norm. In doing so, he uncovered some sad stories of suffering.

Kindness is wisdom.

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.