Quotes About Humanity

Sen unutursun küçük adam ama büyük adam do?as? gere?i unutmaz. Sanma ki kin besler büyük adam, sanma ki öç al?r, yaln?zca neden böylesine baya?? davran??larda bulundu?unu çal???r.

O homem é a única espécie biológica que destruiu a sua própria função sexual natural e está doente em conseqüência disso.

Hitler'cilerin milyonlarca in?am öldürmelerinden sonra, kalkm?? onlar? as?yorsun. Milyonlar? öldürmelerinden önce neredeydin peki, o vakit ne dü?ünüyordun? Düzinelerle ceset oturup dü?ünmen için yeterli neden de?il miydi? ?nsanl???n?n k?p?rdanmas? için milyonlarca ceset mi gerekliydi?

Cellatlar?n?n ipine ko?up idam edilece?ine, insan ya?am?n?n ve iyi ?eylerin korunmas? için bir yasa yarat.

Sana aptal oldu?unu söylüyorlar. Bense ak?ll? ama korkak oldu?unu söylüyorum. Sana insan toplumunun süprüntüsü diyorlar. Bense onun tohumu oldu?unu söylüyorum. Uygarl???n kölelere gereksinmesi oldu?unu söylüyorlar. Ben, hiçbir uygarl???n kölelerle kurulamayaca??n? söylüyorum.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

dokunman?n önemi öyle büyüktür ki, handiyse antropolojik diye tan?mlayabiliriz onu: insan olmak, ona ba?l?d?r. her bireyin hayat?nda iyice diplere at?lm?? bir çapad?r bu tecrübe: dokunuyor ve dokunuluyorsam, duyusal olarak, ruhsal olarak, zihinsel olarak ve ola ki a?k?n anlamda da, ya??yorumdur. Dokunma olmadan hayat? hissedemem. p.17

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough respect for true humanity as it is visible in the persons of the totally uneducated classes, and never enough humility if one sometimes believes one is superior to them.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.

we are statistically punished for being nice

What I fail to understand is how a civilized world that claims to be so appalled by such brutality can simply turn its back on the victims.

Simon shook his head. 'The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the whole damn world is unraveling.

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

Ma quei morti erano così vecchi che non li si poteva chiamare nemmeno cadaveri. Tutto il mondo in definitiva è composto di corpi morti! Ogni manciata di terra è stata un uomo e prima ancora un altro uomo, ogni oncia d'aria è stata respirata migliaia di volte da esseri nel frattempo morti. Cosa avevano tutti, qual era il problema?

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.