Quotes About Humanity

Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir.

Maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

We are accused of pessimism, as though pessimism were but one among a number of possible attitudes, as if man were capable of choosing between two alternatives.

Alles was an Seele und Stoff im Universum vorhanden sein kann, findet sich in irgendeiner Form und irgendwie auch im menschlichen Körper. Wie sagt doch das schon erwähnte Vishvas?ra Tantra: »Was hier ist, ist auch dort. Was hier nicht ist, ist nirgends.«

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

capitalism as an economic and social system that makes people unhappy by making them into part of a human machine in which humanity is expunged and only productivity remains.

Moral arguments beat economic arguments every time, because—whether we are liberal or conservative—we are all moral creatures who are encoded to value compassion and fairness.

I must come back to a point I have made repeatedly: never treat others with contempt, even if you believe they deserve it.

From my earliest days, I learned of the evils of objectifying others.

The moral case against objectifying others is fairly straightforward. It starts to get more complicated when the objectifier and the one being objectified are the same person—in other words, with self-objectification, which scholars define as viewing oneself from a third-person perspective that does not consider one's full humanity.

The ideals of free enterprise and global leadership, central to American conservatism, are responsible for the greatest reduction in human misery since mankind began its long climb from the swamp to the stars.

He possessed an unflinching belief that all people — the poor, children, the elderly — were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.

One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.