Quotes About Humanity

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Franklin alla fine della sua vita, dopo un decennio di esperienza del governo americano, concludeva: «vi è nell'umanità un'inclinazione naturale per il governo monarchico».

Io ora mi domando se aumentando la tensione elettrica, l'umanità intera, in un tempo più o meno lontano, non finirà per impazzire. Ecco un grande problema che dovrebbe preoccupare le menti dei nostri scienziati.

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

And the worst thing, the unsurvivable thing, is understanding that there exist people who know in their flesh the truth of all this. They know it because they created it, created hell with their bare hands and then just kept on living, kept on as though they never stopped the world.

If A kills B before B kills A, then A survives, and the human race is a race of A's.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

A person or family can never bear the burden of whole nation's sins.

A person will be considered dead if his conscience has died and cannot demand his basic rights.

Sometimes I feel how foolish were the people who made weapons, when behavior of people can kill a person from inside out.

While over all springs up the green-lifed sod, And arch, so light and lofty in its span-- So frail and yet so lasting--tis like man.

Everybody's a little crazy if you get to know them good enough.

If you would only look for the God quality and not make any comparison, you would see every human being as you see me; or by looking for the Christ in every face you would bring forth that Christ, or God quality, in all.

Christianity is precisely the religion par excellence, because it exhibits and manifests, to the fullest extent, the very nature and essence of every religious system, which is the impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity for the benefit of divinity.

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. It bears the name patriotism, and it constitutes the entire transcendent morality of the State.