Quotes About Humanity

I wasn't thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he'd taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Ninguno de nosotros encuentra en este mundo todo el cariño que deberíamos.

No le estaba dando gracias por la moneda, ni tampoco por la molestia que se había tomado al detenerse a ayudarme. Le estaba dando las gracias por... bueno, por algo que no estoy segura de poder explicar ni tan siquiera ahora. Por mostrarme que en el mundo se puede encontrar algo más que crueldad, supongo.

Dem Elend, das in uns wohnt, können wir natürlich nicht entfliehen.

Ninguno encontramos en este mundo el cariño que deberíamos.

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

I felt before I thought, as all humans do.

We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Our White - Whites were a mixed crowd,including a well - known doctor,owner of a chateau near Versailles,an opera singer with an enormous belly and a chaplainbass;a homosexual architect with a beard,two night club porters,and a lawyer who sold Jewish refugees visas for a Central American Republic,which on arrival turned out to be non valid.

An emotionally maladjusted species , we have the uncanny power of turning every blessing, including language, into a curse.

He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it—an abstract and geometric love.

How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it?

Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful.

In those days the European continent had already reached a stage where a man could be told without irony that he should be thankful to be shot and not strangled, decapitated, or beaten to death.

Since we cannot in the foreseeable future expect the necessary change in human nature to arise by way of a spontaneous mutation, that is, by natural means, we must induce it by artificial means. We can only hope to survive as a species by developing techniques which supplant biological evolution. We must search for a cure for the schizophysiology inherent in man's nature, and the resulting split in our minds, which led to the situation in which we find ourselves.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.

Because most people ain't people.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Bir inanç ortal??? kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sar?l?p kalmay?n, insan? can?ndan eden bir yasa yanl?? bir yasad?r.YaÅŸam, kad?n?m, yaÅŸam. Tanr?n?n en deÄŸerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakk?n? vermez.

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.

Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world-- the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!