Quotes About Humanity

True, Nandprayag has some affinity with parts of the Doon valley before it was submerged by a tidal wave of humanity. But in the Doon there is no great river running past your garden. Here there are two, and they are also part of this feeling of belonging. Perhaps in some former life I did come this way, or maybe I dreamed about living here. Who knows? Anyway, mysteries are more interesting than certainties.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or because of him. Both.

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)

freedom can be achieved and retained only by sober men who take humanity as it is, not as humanity should be.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Ask not what your age wants," Brownson said, "but what it needs; not what it will reward, but what, without which, it cannot be saved; and that go and do; and find your reward in the consciousness of having done your duty, and above all in the reflection that you have been accounted to suffer somewhat for mankind.

The first obligation is to Truth, and that a Truth derived from an apprehension of an order more than natural or material. I think that man who will not acknowledge the Author of their being have no sanction for truth Dedication to an abiding Truth and to the spiritual aspirations of humanity excised, the pursuit of power and the gratification of concupiscence are the logical occupations of rational men in a world that is merely human and merely natural.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." —GANDHI It's

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?" -Ruthie

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?

rasialisme telah mengaburkan kesamaan itu dan menumpulkan contohnya, sehingga bukan hanya mengalihkan perhatian dari struktur dasar ekonomi Afrika Selatan, melainkan juga menyembunyikan intensitas eksploitasi dan laju akumulasi kekayaan secara berlebihan yang memedulikan kesejahteraan manusia

None of us exists in this world apart from being one gender or another, and in fact our existence as male and female is one of the most complete ways God has revealed the diverse aspects of his own being.

Sabbath keeping is the primary discipline that helps us live within the limits of our humanity and to honor God as our Creator. It is the key to a life lived in sync with the rhythms that God himself built into our world.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

The the Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.

A KZ-ekben nem írtak nagy verseket. Ha nem így volna, még azt mondhatnánk, hogy a lágerek jók voltak valamire, mondjuk megtisztulásra, aminek nagy m?vészet lett az eredménye. De semmire se voltak jók.

The Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.