Quotes About Humanity

The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else. Amen. Good-bye. Peace.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The worst part of war is that so many people enjoy it.

the human is sometimes as inscrutable, as inexplicable, as the supernatural.

man is not a rational animal. He may have invented many social philosophies, but he remains incurably biological.

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Life is pressuring us to live by the robots' pleasures, I thought. Our appetites have given way to theirs. Robots aren't becoming us, I feared; we are becoming them.

Oh, no, that would have been rude. I don't believe in that sort of tit for tat, do you? People are too self-centeredly unkind to one another as it is.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

The world had known but one perfect man, and no perfect woman whatever.

I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no different than other men.

There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars … compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

Tutti sarebbero belli, liberi e spensierati, e amarsi vorrebbe dire soltanto: rivelarsi, l'uno all'altro, quanto si è belli. L'amore sarebbe una delizia disinteressata, una gloria perfetta: come guardarsi allo specchio; sarebbe... una cattiveria naturale e senza rimorso, come una caccia meravigliosa in un bosco reale. L'amore vero è così: non ha nessuno scopo e nessuna ragione, e non si sottomette a nessun potere fuorché alla grazia umana.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

Sì, per la morte, un uomo grosso e un guaglione, sono tutti uguali. Per lei, sono tutti creature!

Vuoi sapere una importante Verità Eterna, tu diavolessa, tigre? Impara: IL SACRIFICIO È LA SOLA, VERA PERVERSIONE UMANA.

God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

creo en el secreto de confesión, ni de los curas ni de los psiquiatras. No cuadra con la condición humana: todos nos contamos casi todo.

There's no such thing as an original sin.