Quotes About Humanity

Comme la pensée collective ne peut exister comme pensée, elle passe dans les choses (signes, machines...). D'où ce paradoxe : c'est la chose qui pense et l'homme qui est réduit à l'état de chose

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt.

többnek képzeljük magunkat Istennél, mert Å' "csak" szeretni tud, mi gy?lölni is.

Parmi les êtres humains, on ne reconnait pleinement l'existence que de ceux qu'on aime. La croyance à l'existence d'autres êtres humains comme tels est amour.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

He who treats as equals those who are far below him in strength really makes them a gift of the quality of human beings, of which fate had deprived them. As far as it is possible for a creature, he reproduces the original generosity of the Creator with regard to them. This is the most Christian of virtues.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist. Humanity does not exist in the anonymous flesh lying inert by the roadside. The Samaritan who stops and looks gives his attention all the same to this absent humanity, and the actions which follow prove that it is a question of real attention.

Jesus' sinlessness should not be equated with emotionlessness.

Te ruego que consideres que Dios el Padre, al ser movido en Su Hijo Jesucristo únicamente por Su amor gratuito hacia la humanidad perdida, ha efectuado un acta de donación a todos ellos, para que todo aquel que cree en este Su Hijo, no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna.3

There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect!

I don't pretend to be a very educated man, except maybe educated in the heart, and in being able to feel for the sorrows and fears of every ornery fellow human being.

God, sir, men's souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break!

The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.

As he watched her sleeping, under wretched and insufficient blankets, in the cold nights which swooped down after the panting sun-drenched days, his dry heart blossomed in tenderness. . . . To think that he had once esteemed people because they understood Goossens's music or James Joyce's fiction, because they wore sleek clothes and were clever at the use of forks, because they could set up wooden words as a barricade against roaring life!

Baz? insanlar?n cana yak?nl??? kaba insanlar?n sald?rganl???ndan daha ölümcüldür. S. Holmes. Hikayeleri ~ Åžansl? MüÅŸteri.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

CORO Molte potenze sono tremende ma nessuna lo è più dell'uomo.»

Ne da sovražim – da ljubim, sem na svetu.

As Stephen Levine says: "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion."4

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!