Quotes About Humanity

Para nada serve esse amontoado de acontecimentos sem sentido ao que ordinariamente se dá o nome de experiência. Apenas, sagrada e triste, contém ela, em si, a dor, as lágrimas, a exultação e os extravios — enfim, o bem e o mal misturados que implica, necessariamente, toda e qualquer história de homem.

Para nada serve esse amontoado de acontecimentos sem sentido ao que ordinariamente se dá o nome de experiência. Apenas, sagrada e triste, contém ela, em si, a dor, as lágrimas, a exultação e os extravios — enfim, o bem e o mal misturados que implicam, necessariamente, toda e qualquer história de homem.

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.

Son todos vulnerables. Pero tú más que nadie, mi niño, porque te pasarás la vida absorbiendo el dolor de los demás.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

A slave is but half a man.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.

The trickiest thing is the nature of man, apparent in everything.

Evils draw men together.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.

Perfected by the offices and duties of social life, man is the best, but, rude and undisciplined, he is the very worst of animals.

He, therefore, who first collected societies, was the greatest benefactor of mankind.

Whoever, therefore, is unfit to live in a commonwealth, is above or below humanity.

Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.

For in man, and in man alone, owing to is erect attitude, the upper part of the body is turned toward the upper part of the universe; while in other animals it is turned neither to this nor to the lower aspects, but in a direction midway between the two.

Were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendor of beauty which beams from the statues of gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally formed to be their slaves.

That man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal who has the gift of speech.

Evil draws men together.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.