Quotes About Humanity

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

Quando comecei a escrever histórias policiais verídicas, prometi a mim mesma que me lembraria que escrevo sobre a perda de seres humanos. Torço para que meu trabalho possa de alguma maneira salvar possíveis vítimas, alertar do perigo.

Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.

If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

When the Fascists entered Denmark, the Jews were ordered to sew yellow stars on their clothing so they could be easily recognized. The Danes promptly sewed on yellow stars, both to save the Jews and to save themselves from turning into Fascists. Their king joined with them. In