Quotes About Humanity

Ludzie zawsze s? gotowi do ?miechu, a ci, co si? ?miej?, s? po naszej stronie.

Dünyada gurur duyabileceÄŸi hiçbir ÅŸeyi olmayan zavall? bir adam, son çareye, ait olmakla gurur duyduÄŸu ulusa uzat?r elini; burada kendine gelir ve art?k, ÅŸükran içinde ulusa özgü tüm hatalar? ve aptall?klar? diÅŸiyle t?rna??yla savunmaya haz?rd?r.

Olhai ao vosso redor! O sintoma externo da brutalidade cada vez mais crescente pode até mesmo ser reconhecido como o elemento que constantemente a acompanha — a barba longa, esse distintivo sexual em meio ao rosto, dizendo-nos que à humanidade prefere-se a masculinidade. Esta nos coloca em pé de igualdade com os animais, uma vez que leva o indivíduo a querer ser antes de tudo um macho, mas, e somente depois um homem.

Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as manufactured for its own use.

This need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.

El mundo es malo, como se viene diciendo desde hace mucho tiempo: los salvajes se comen unos a otros y los civilizados se engañan mutuamente, y a eso es a lo que damos el nombre del progreso.

Quanto mais alguém pertence à posteridade, isto é, à humanidade em geral e como um todo, tanto mais estranho será à sua própria época.

The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race

Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.

The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other

Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.

The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species.

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda vida es por esencia dolor.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.

Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?

Never counted in the costs of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources, destroyed vegetation. Rarely mentioned is the arrogance of the human race toward other living things with which it shares this planet. All these are forgotten in the fight for markets and ideologies. This arrogance will probably be the ultimate undoing of the human species.

Empathy sometimes achieves what scholarship cannot

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.

He tells stories of the gods, but his yarn is spun from the ungodly, human heart.