Quotes About Humanity

Instead of putting people in boxes, we need to stop and listen to their stories.

We have shown that the substance and object of religion is altogether human; we have shown that divine wisdom is human wisdom; that the secret of theology is anthropology; that the absolute mind is the so-called finite subjective mind.

Disseram que eu fora insensível; que manifestara um sentimento muito próximo da indiferença e do desdém. Ah!, como as pessoas não entendem nada das pessoas.

My response to those who still try to justify Castro's tyranny with the excuse that he has built schools and hospitals is this: Stalin, Hitler and Pinochet also built schools and hospitals, and like Castro, they also tortured and assassinated opponents. They built concentration and extermination camps and eradicated all liberties, committing the worst crimes against humanity.

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Bücher sind ja, irgndwie, MenschnReste -

Ich ? : Atheist, allerdings ! : Wie jeder anständige Mensch !

humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Art is the desperate cry of those who experience in themselves the fate of humanity.

We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and thus unreflective of-- and unattuned to-- the seismic emotional and psychic reality underneath, our true reality... The arts put onto the page or the stage or the canvas or the screen a special portraiture that does justice to our depths.

Mensen hebben warmte nodig. Daarop leven ze. Daarvan leven ze. Die warmte is geen misdaad. Het gebrek eraan is de misdaad.

Is dat niet uiteindelijk de enige opdracht van de mens? Je moet worden wat de anderen in je wensen te zien.

Het vel van de sardines is zo mooi, het is mooier dan het vel van de mens, maar hij moet toegeven dat hij nog nooit heeft gezien hoe menselijk vel eruitziet als je het bakt in een pan.

De mens is een zoogdier dat zich er niet bij kan neerleggen dat er geen veiligheid bestaat en die dat tekort compenseert met een intense verspreiding van huiselijkheid.

Kijk,' zegt hij, 'kijk hoe mooi het hier is. Nergens een mens te bespeuren. Alleen maar zand. Dat is mooi. Een wereld zonder mensen, dat is schoonheid. Duisternis is de mens, niets dan dat, het epicentrum van duisternis, en het enige licht dat van hem komt, is het licht van het beest.

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

I'm not talking about YOUR book now, but look at how many books have already been written about the Holocaust. What's the point? People haven't changed... Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust.

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.