Quotes About Humanity

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

It is love—friendship—that sustains us, even in the worst of times, under the worst of circumstances. Even when we have been driven mad. Even when we have killed. We still love. We are still worthy of love. We can still be loved.

and no race has a monopoly on beauty, on intelligence, on strength

I remember very well having said to the Martinican Communists in those days, that black people, as you have pointed out, were doubly proletarianized and alienated: in the first place as workers, but also as blacks, because after all we are dealing with the only race which is denied even the notion of humanity.

There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured man, in whom I am not also murdered and humiliated.

Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . .

If its liberation is not human enough to include the liberation of women it will not be liberation

Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18, 21-25; 3:1, 6-7, 16-17, 20; 4:1-2 NIV

No puedo permitirme odiar a nadie. No tengo tanto tiempo

Human beings have launched satellites into outer space, and yet they still grovel on earth looking at their own feet like wild dogs. What is to become of our planet?

Now, don't get angry, Kei-chan. We're both crybabies, aren't we? Only now you've become a romantic crybaby and I'm a humanist crybaby.)

Nature takes good care of her appearance. What makes nature ugly is the behavior of human beings.

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it.

This is probably true of human life everywhere - a light exterior hides a dark underside.

According to Buddhism, the human life span today has diminished to around a hundred years, and will continue to decrease. That we are living in a time of increasing evil is a common idea among ancient people.

In modern times, the idea of existential suffering has further weakened. Human life is no longer regarded as a realm of suffering but instead as a setting for the actualization of human happiness.

Cilv?ks ir rad?ts, lai nestu savu krustu, t?p?c vi?am doti stipri pleci. Var iztur?t bezgala daudz, ja nav zaud?jis cilv?ku sev?.

In the foreseeable future, I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war." Then

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

A true believer is a danger to humanity.

I don't understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it's a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it's not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it's the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

When one abdicates universality, one obtains universal horror.

Communisme', c'est l'affirmation que ce qui est commun à tous les hommes doit être l'objet incessant de la pensée, de l'action, de l'organisation.