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Quotes About Humanity

We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
On the other side of the river and the shattered ammunition dump swarmed the hundreds of men who had taken refuge weeks before in holes in the river banks in order to avoid the fighting, and whom Langlais compared to the crabs on tropical coasts. Dregs of humanity, deserters – Langlais could not find words sufficiently contemptuous for them.
~ Jon E. Lewis
Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One's religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind.
~ Jon Huntsman
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's easy to avoid suffering and easier to feel disconnected from the people experiencing
~ Jon Katz
Humans have a need for compassion, but they also have a lot of anger, envy, frustration, and resentment, all the enemies of compassion.
~ Jon Katz
We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.
~ Jon Katz
Is a connected medium the same as a compassionate one? I don't think so.
~ Jon Katz
Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge that can create revolutionary, breakthrough products or simply fix existing, broken products. People do strange things - unexpected things - and being there to witness and record these minute and quick moments of humanity is simply invaluable
~ Jon Kolko
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
~ Jon Krakauer
But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?
~ Jon McGregor
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
~ Jon Meacham
But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?
~ Jon Ronson
Afri?ka Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se tako?er pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne ?ovje?nosti.
~ Jon Sobrino
I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
~ Jon Stewart
when Jesus was crucified, "the image of God was one of absolute vulnerability.
~ Jon Ward
Eons ago, Homo sapiens were just as alert and aware as all other creatures, and for the same reason. They needed to be. Now we don't need to be - or do we, but just don't understand this anymore? Our sensory equipment and brains are still designed for this awareness. These instincts are still in each of us, just buried, maybe deeply buried. Connecting with bird language begins the process of unearthing them.
~ Jon Young
The natural state of mankind is grinding poverty punctuated by horrific violence terminating with an early death.
~ Jonah Goldberg
There is no light at the end of the tunnel, only a pack of matches handed down from one generation to the next. Humanity does not have a long fuse and this generation holds the last match.
~ JonArno Lawson
why are we so alone?
~ jonas
Vid ett tillfälle var det ett ungt vårdbiträde som utan att tänka sig för sträckte ut sin hand när hon inte hade skyddshandskarna på och tråkade hans tårar.
~ Jonas Gardell
Kod?l mes vis užmirštam šird?, lyg ji b?t? m?sos gabalas? Mes kalbam apie traktorius, ir apie rok?, ir apie s?rius, NATO, bet užmirštam šird?, kur viskas prasideda ir viskas pasibaigia...
~ Jonas Mekas
Namo ?jau p?s?ias , ži?r?damas, galvodamas. Aš steb?jausi savimi, kaip aš toks vienas gal?jau išaugti, kad man vis? šit? žmoni? ir viso šito gyvenimo nereikia. Ta?iau kartu taip skaudžiai ilg?jausi žmogaus. Nedaug - tik vieno, vieno vienintelio man užtekt?.
~ Jonas Mekas
It's more difficult for a mother to forget one child than for living humanity to forget all the millions who died in this war.
~ Jonas Mekas