Quotes About Humanity

That all our gathered spoil was reaved and slaughtered, Flocks, herds, and herdmen, by some human hand

What is it that goes on four feet, three feet and two feet . . . and is most feeble when it walks on four?" His answer was "man—on all fours as a baby, on two feet at maturity, on three as an old man with a stick.

Look through all humanity: you'll never find a man on earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

So, when I am nothing—then am I a man?

Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele.

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Niet om te haten, maar om lief te hebben ben ik op de wereld gekomen.

Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

If man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is both beast and angel, he can be in anxiety, and the greater the anxiety, the greater the man.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.