Quotes About Humanity

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt with common human weaknesses.

Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?

O, sungguh gila aku, kalau aku mencoba menangkap kamu dengan kekuatan. Tubuhmu terlalu kuat. Manusia tak punya banyak kesempatan menang bergulat dengan macan. Tapi untunglah ia lebih pandai. Tidak banyak orang yang membantah kenyataan bahwa macan lebih rendah dari manusia.

Tingkah lakumu sampai sekarang ini tidak lebih dari keberanian binatang, jenis keberanian yang tidak menghargai nilai-nilai kemanusiaan dan kehidupan. Itu bukan jenis keberanian yang menciptakan soerang samurai.

We human beings all look up at the same moon, but there are many roads we may travel to reach the top of the peak nearest it. Sometimes, when we lose our way, we decide to try someone else's, but the ultimate aim is to find fulfillment in life.

This book is for parents who understand that potential is not an end point but a capacity to grow and learn. Nurturing children's potential, in the broadest sense, means cultivating their humanity. It involves supporting their expanding abilities to reach out to others with kindness and empathy, to feel part of something bigger than themselves, to find joy and satisfaction in creating a life that is personally meaningful . . . and so much more.

heroes exterminated each other for the benefit of other people who were not heroes.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

I still remember a dying seal looking at me in mute appeal as if to say, "You people are supposed to protect us. You are the trustees of our world. Why aren't you doing your job?

The Lord is present in every one of us, and when we love those around us, we are loving him.

I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.