Quotes About Humanity

Maar de menselijke geest accepteert niet graag dat hij afhankelijk is van het toeval, dat hij slechts het voorbijgaande product is van kansen waarover geen enkele god zeggenschap heeft, hijzelf zeker niet.

il existait sans doute entre les inquiétes créatures humaines des répulsions et des haines surgies du plus profond de leur nature, et qui, le jour où il ne serait plus de mode de s'exterminer pour cause de religion, se donneraient cours autrement. (La promenade sur la dune)

Ne mettrez-vous pas fin à sauvage cri, Ce fauve hurlement des bêtes qu'on abat ? Jusqu'à quand, insensé, meurtrissant et meurtri, Dévoreras-tu ta propre substance ?… … Comme un père hébété égorge son enfant, Et prie, ô l'imbécile !

L'incivilimento dei costumi, il progresso delle idee durante l'ultimo secolo è opera d'una minoranza esigua di spiriti illuminati; la massa resta ignara, feroce quando può, sempre egoista e gretta, e si può scommettere fondatamente che tale resterà sempre.

Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi.

Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.

Les pires exemples de férocité ne servent jamais qu'à durcir chez l'auditeur quelques fibres de plus, et comme le cÅ"ur humain a déjà à peu près la mollesse d'une pierre, je ne crois pas nécessaire de travailler plus dans ce sens. (p. 140)

having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.

They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

The sight of Fos and Opal coming down the street together absolutely tickled him. The idea of two such strangely unremarkable yet lovable people could have found and met each other reaffirmed his waning faith in anything remotely optimistic about mankind and seemed to be a more convincing proof than all the gospel shit flown from the pulpits of Knox County that life could, in fact, distribute happy endings.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

That's the greatest miracle, and ultimately the only one: that you awaken from the dream of separation and become a different kind of person. People are constantly concerning themselves with what they do: have I achieved enough, written the greatest screenplay, formed the most powerful company? But the world will not be saved by another great novel, great movie, or great business venture. It will only be saved by the appearance of great people.

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

Our political challenges are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise and a deeper dysfunction. Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species

everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

If we really desire a moral answer to the Holocaust, we do everything in our power to create a world in which it could never happen again. As

The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear