Quotes About Humanity

Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.

No brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?

La gentillesse est le langage qu'un sourd peut entendre et une aveugle peut voir

What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!

All say, How hard it is that we have to die—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Warum wimmelt es nicht von Büchern, die Hohn und Spott über diese jämmerliche Welt, das sinnlose All, die gewalttätige, niederträchtige Menschheit ausgießen und die ganzen lumpigen Zustände der Lächerlichkeit preisgeben? Merkwürdig, Millionen von Menschen sterben jedes Jahr mit diesen Gefühlen im Herzen. Weshalb schreibe ich nicht so ein Buch? Weil ich eine Familie zu ernähren habe. Deshalb.

Of all the animals, man is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of it.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies.

Slade had to kill several men—some say three, others say four, and others six—but the world was the richer for their loss.

Ain't you my chile? En does you know anything dat a mother won't do for her chile? Day ain't nothin' a white mother won't do for her chile. Who made 'em so? De Lord done it. En who made de niggers? De Lord made 'em. In de inside, mothers is all de same. De good lord he made 'em so.

One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.

What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat

Lovely as he was, Satan could be cruelly offensive when he chose; and he always chose when the human race was brought to his attention. He always turned up his nose at it, and never had a kind word for it.

Damn these human beings! If I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort.