Quotes About Humanity

Todo ser humano debería sentirse avergonzado de su especie al pensar en los mamarrachos que siempre han ocupado los tronos.

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Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. It was urged that they were most probably combatants in disguise, but she said: 'As to that, how can any tell? They wear the livery of God, and if even one of these wears it rightfully, surely it were better that all the guilty should escape than that we have upon our hands the blood of that innocent man. I will lodge them where I lodge, and feed them, and sent them away in safety.

Poor little creatures! she said. 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!

what a dull-witted slug the average human being is.

Isn't human nature the most consummate sham & lie that was ever invented?

De todos los animales, el hombre es el único que es cruel. Es el único que infringe dolor por el placer de hacerlo.

Si los gatos y los hombres se cruzasen, ganaría mucho la raza humana y perdería mucho la gatuna

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

La charité nous force à tirer le rideau sur le reste de cette scène.

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

Rien n'existe. Tout n'est que rêve. Dieu, l'humanité, le soleil, la lune, la nature des étoiles. Un rêve, un simple rêve. Rien n'existe. Il n'y a que le vide. Et vous... Et vous n'êtes même pas vous. Vous n'avez ni corps, ni sang, ni os, vous n'êtes qu'une pensée.

The doctor's job was to shut up long enough to let the patient be the most important person in the room, because she was. There was an unforced and absolutely real respect for people just because they were people. And we, as doctors, were their servants. For all the things that felt wrong, that felt right. If you weren't an idealist, why would you go to medical school?

The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equal sign. As science writer and sometime theologian David Conte wrote: 'God for all intents and purposes is an equal sign, and at least until now, something humanity has always been able to believe in is that the universe always adds up.

Yes, often, I am reminded of her, and in one of my vast array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt- an immense leap of an attempt- to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it. Here it is. One of a handful. The Book Thief. If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. I'll show you something.

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

I'm just another stupid human.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.