Quotes About Humanity

What right has a non-worldly, a discarnate, God to forgive any human being? … he is not to be found, his grace and mercy are not to be found, anywhere but in the past of human violence.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

This life of utter givenness to God and the other, the neighbour, is already a life that death cannot contain.

Rage was an essential part of slavery. Rage will allow us to forget our own humanity. Without rage, we will recognize another person as like ourselves. It's hard to hurt someone you're not angry at; it's anger that drives the impulse to harm. Rage declares itself through violence, and violence was the platform on which slavery was built. We feel rage when we feel separate; we feel compassion when we feel connected.

The question mark, used well, may be the most profoundly human form of punctuation. Unlike the other marks, the question mark—except perhaps when used in a rhetorical question—imagines the Other. It envisions communication not as assertive but as interactive, even conversational.

Verdugos de ideales afligieron la tierra, En un pozo de sombra la humanidad se encierra Con los rudos molosos del odio y de la guerra.

Nada de filosofías, nada de finalidades trascendentes, ni de abstracciones sensibilizadas, humanizadas y universalizadas. Eso, estoy seguro, hiere vuestros tímpanos delicados hechos para la música y el amor.

Suspeito que estejamos vivendo um momento de metamorfose da nossa condição humana. Até agora temos sido habitantes do mundo da vida. Nosso habitat é constituído por florestas, animais, rios e mares. Somos seres biológicos, corpos. Mas agora estamos mudando de casa. Estamos trocando nossa casa biológica por uma outra casa, eletrônica.

Se as plantas tivessem olhos, gosto e capacidade de julgar, cada planta diria que a sua flor é a mais bonita". Esse não é o nosso caso. Somos os únicos seres que não estão contentes com o que são. Queremos ser diferentes. Por isso estamos infelizes e doentes.

Mas a vida humana não se mede por batidas cardíacas ou ondas cerebrais. A vida humana só é humana enquanto existe a possibilidade de beleza e riso. Sem beleza e sem risos a vida humana acabou.

a pessoa que está ali é mais que um corpo. É um ser humano. Está com medo. Medo da dor. Medo da morte, pois nunca se pode ter certeza. É preciso espantar o medo para que a vida não se encolha. Mas o medo só sai quando se confia.

Um desejo esperado pode ser sonhado pela humanidade inteira, não conhece nem tempo nem espaço. Mas um fato está condenado a se perder na distância e no tempo.

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga

So this is the human condition: we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves.

We have to stop speaking about the Earth being in need of healing. The Earth doesn't need healing, we do.

we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves. Maybe we're not supposed to know and when we're finished filling the world with parking lots, muffin shops and Starbucks, our point on Earth is finished and with one big cataclysmic boom we'll be gone.

our hearts bleed because we hear of a beached whale while the next minute we're baying for the blood of someone who stole the last shopping trolley.

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

The whole horror of the much-praised capitalist order lies just in this: Without pity and devoid of all humanity it strides across the corpses of whole peoples to safeguard the brutal right of exploitation, and sacrifices the welfare of millions to the selfish interests of tiny minorities.

Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.