Quotes About Humanity

her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de.

is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo

Ä°yilik seçilemeyen bir ÅŸeydir. Ä°nsan seçemediÄŸinde insanl?ktan ç?kar. (syf. 73 – 74)

Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.

Hay pecado supongo, pero el castigo fue del todo desproporcionado. Te han convertido en algo que ya no es una criatura humana. Ya no estás en condiciones de elegir. Estás obligado a tener una conducta que la sociedad considera aceptable, y eres una máquina que sólo puede hacer bien.

Perhaps the ultimate act of evil is dehumanization, the killing of the soul

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange.

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)

Goodness comes from within. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Bizim elimizde kapa??n? açmay? reddettiÄŸimiz bir ÅŸiÅŸe su su varken yan?m?zda susuzluktan ölen birine aÄŸlamak kötülüklerin en büyüÄŸüdür...

All we know is that men move, men change, and that the sufferings they undergo—and will themselves to undergo—are both wrong and right.

Bu dünyaya s?rt Tanr?'yla baÄŸlant? kurmaya getirilmediniz. Böyle ÅŸeyler insan?n tüm gücünü ve iyiliÄŸini yok edebilir. (syf. 3)

The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene's, can take so much and no more.

Thus another émigré, the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, wrote, "If, despite everything, I should survive, then I owe it to Goethe.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

While I undressed I reflected on the difficulty of believing in the existence of certain human beings, my uncle among them, even in the face of unquestionable evidence—indications sometimes even wanting in the case of persons for some reason more substantial to the mind—that each had dreams and desires like other men.

He started with interests of a genuinely scientific and humane kind – full of idealism, you know – then gradually involved himself with all sorts of mystical nonsense, transcendental magic, goodness knows what rubbish. Made quite a good thing out of it, I believe. Contributions from the Faithful, women especially. Human beings are sad dupes, I fear. The priesthood would have a thin time of it were that not so.

For my own part, I always enjoy hearing the details of other people's lives, whether imaginary or not, so that I found this side of Lovell agreeable.

No matter how difficult our situation may be, there are always people who are suffering more.