Quotes About Humanity

Hur ska man förhålla sig till människor som knappast är något annat än utropstecken på två ben? Hur ska man stoppa dem som inte skyr några medel?

Jag skulle aldrig slåss för ett extra sovrum åt nationen. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för heliga platser eller heliga sevärdheter. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för så kallade nationella intressen. Men jag skulle slåss för liv och frihet och ingenting annat, slåss av bara helvete.

men can't help themselves, that's just the way they are made, but women in her view are actually not much better, and that's why love is something that one way or another always turns out badly.

You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has lost his shoes, and so belligerent no one will help him find them.

I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

Aren't we all, I thought, somebody's harvest?

Desperation, not desire, is the root of atrocity.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.

Remember that envy is one of mankind's greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.

Asombra que yo no haya abandonado aún todas mis esperanzas, puesto que parecen absurdas e irrealizables. Sin embargo, me aferro a ellas a pesar de todo, porque sigo creyendo en la bondad innata del hombre.

La hoja es mucho más paciente que los seres humanos.

El ser humano puede sentirse solo a pesar del amor de muchos, porque para nadie es realmente el más querido.

Cuando se fijan tanto en mi, primero me pongo arisca, luego triste y al final termino volteando mi corazón, con el lado malo hacia fuera, y el bueno hacia dentro buscando siempre la manera de ser como de verdad me gustaría ser y como podría ser... si no hubiera otra gente en este mundo

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

Compassion is the only key I ever found which fits everyone.

The white man had invented glasses which made objects too near or too far, cameras, telescopes, spyglasses, objects which put glass between living and vision. It was the image he sought to possess, not the texture, the living warmth, the human closeness.

What unites us universally is our emotions, our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.

Tu te îndr?gosteÈ™ti de minÈ›ile oamenilor.

To say that the artist is not serving humanity is monstrous. He has been the eyes, the ears, the voice of humanity. He was always the transcendentalist who x-rayed our true states of being. His role in European culture is clear enough. Here he is given an inferior status, because he is not obviously and directly useful. His usefulness cannot be measured. The artist cannot serve directly.

Pouvoir, au milieu de la folie, redevenir humaine et pitoyable.