Quotes About Humanity

All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every person was different, this was not true. At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end; the many loses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering limited beings- Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.

So asked myself: What mite somewhat retreev the old and hope full me? And replyed: Some ansers. Which is why I am riting this leter to you Yumans. I wud like to know what is rong with you peeple.

Today, at the stupa, it occurs to me that this low-level ambient fear constitutes a decent working definition of the human: A human being is someone who, having lived awhile, becomes terrified and, having become terrified, deeply craves an end to the fear.

all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact;

Turn that Megaphone down, and insist that what's said through it be as precise, intelligent, and humane as possible.

that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.

Turns out, all mean same: Bastard = individual standing across from us. Turd = individual standing across from us. Creep = individual standing across from us. Idiot = individual standing across from us.

I guess one never realizes how little one wants to be kicked to death until one hears a crowd doing that exact same thing to someone nearby," I say.

Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ's divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.

De qué otra forma puede explicarse la interminable secuencia de desastres, sufrimiento gratuito, desolación pública y privada que caracteriza a la condición humana?

Qué es nuestra historia —desde el asesinato de Caín hasta los hornos de gas y la incineración nuclear—, sino la crónica de lo inhumano?

En nuevas formas, el hombre del siglo XXI sigue luchando con el aterrador vacío de la extinción.

Existimos para la oscuridad». ¿Esto

El hambre, el velo, el gueto ortodoxo, las asfixias que pregona el fundamentalismo patriarcal pueden frenar el despliegue del ser humano

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.

Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author

If we are to die, it will be from internal failures, from the ungovernable dark places of the mind – the scaffolding left over from evolution's bloody building program.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.