Quotes About Humanity

I don't see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

It's always the kindnesses that finish you off.

It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.

It was an odd sensation, having to view my family as human beings.

Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

I looked at Will and I saw the baby I held in my arms, dewily besotted, unable to believe that I had created another human being. I saw the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.

olhei para will e enxerguei o bebê que segurei no colo, chorosamente encantada, incapaz de acreditar que havia gerado um outro ser humano. vi a criança pequena, esticando a mão para mim, o menino em idade escolar chorando de raiva porque outra criança zombou dele. enxerguei as vulnerabilidades, o amor, a história. era isso que ele estava me pedindo para extinguir - a criança e, ao mesmo tempo, o homem - todo aquele amor, toda aquela história.

esa tozuda negativa de la humanidad a intentar al menos obrar de un modo razonable.

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace. The

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black

They said I should teach her a lesson. I never got it, not even in the first flush of anger, when I thought she had pretty much stomped all over my heart. You beat a horse and you can break it all right. You can make it submit. But it'll never forget. And it sure as hell won't care for you. So if I wouldn't do it to a horse, I could never work out why I should do it to a human.

continents,

Be kind to yourself. You're only human.

It was always the kindness that would kill you.

Last time I looked, God gave 'em two arms and two legs, just like the men.' - Miss O'Hare

But I'm not an automation. I'm human and I have a life, and just for a short while I had responsibilities that meant I couldn't be the employee you – or I – would have liked. ~Louisa Clark

man kann Menschen nicht dafür bestrafen, dass sie Menschen sind.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty

It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly. And

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.