Quotes About Humanity

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

Finally life becomes a very specific thing--and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

O seasons, O châteaux,What soul is without flaws?

Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am an animal, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are fake niggers; maniacs, savages, misers, all of you. - Bad Blood

Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères ! Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères, Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini ! Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit ! Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile... - Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...

Donc le poète est vraiment voleur de feu. Il est chargé de l'humanité, des animaux même ; il devra faire sentir, palper, écouter ses inventions ; si ce qu'il rapporte de là-bas a forme, il donne forme ; si c'est informe, il donne de l'informe. Trouver une langue ;

Mankind is King, And Man is God! But Love is the only faith...

Dieu est-il le rêve de l'humanité? Ce serait trop beau. L'humanité est-elle le rêve de Dieu? Ce serait trop abominable.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

The Gospel addresses men as guilty, condemned, perishing criminals. It declares that the most chaste moralist is in the same terrible plight as is the most voluptuous profligate; and the zealous professor, with all his religious performances, is no better off than the most profane infidel. The Gospel contemplates every descendant of Adam as a fallen, polluted, hell-deserving and helpless sinner. The grace which the Gospel publishes is his only hope.

The total depravity of human nature does not mean that it actually breaks forth into open acts of all kinds of evil in any one man.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

L'uomo crea eufemismi e cortine di fumo per negare le leggi naturali. E anche per negare l'infame condizione che gli è propria. E ogni risveglio gli costa i duecento morti di un aereo che si schianta, i duecentomila di uno tsunami o il milione di una guerra civile…»

Hay un momento complicado, cuando descubres que una guerra civil no es, como crees al principio, la lucha del bien contra el mal… Sólo el horror enfrentado a otro horror.

Es lo malo de estas guerras —va diciendo Olmos, a su espalda—. Que oyes al enemigo llamar a su madre en el mismo idioma que tú, y como que así, ¿no?… Se te enfrían las ganas.