Quotes About Humanity

Meistä on tullut ihmistekoja pikemmin kuin ihmisolentoja. Hidasta, niin pääset pitemmälle kuin voit kuvitellakkaan.

We are human beings first and last. Our religion is faith in Humanity - and there can be no religion greater than that.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.

What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and want to be Something, and you try. But instead of being this Something, the man puts it over on everybody instead.

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

That's the struggle of humanity, to recruit others to your version of what's real.

Whatever the man's age, history, condition, knowledge, culture, development, he had an erection. Good currency anywhere. Recognized by the Bank of England.

My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. The living are not what they were, the dead die again and again, and at last for good.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep," said Mintouchian. "Even the Son of Man made it hard so He would have enough in common with our race to be its God.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

Humankind is still fooling around with hypocrisy, I thought. They don't realize that it's too late even for that.

There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

Everyone got bitterness in his chosen thing. It might be in the end that the chosen thing that the chosen thing in itself is bitterness because to arrive at the chosen thing needs courage, because it's intense, and intensity is what the feeble humanity of us can't take for long. And also the chosen thing can't be one that we already have, since what we already have there isn't much use or respect for.

It means that writers are supposed to make you laugh and cry. That's what mankind is looking for.

History is the history of cruelty, not love, as soft men think.

Stvarna zemaljska kugla nije tako bistra, nego zamu?ena, uzburkana. Odvija se golema ljudska djelatnost. Smrt vreba. Zato, ako osje?aš malo sre?e, sakrij je. A kad ti je srce puno, šuti isto tako.

Ljepota nije ljudski izum.