Quotes About Humanity

Really, dear," Brian's mother reassured him, as they lined up for tickets. "It's about war.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me:I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

It's unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Although the spoken word is over six million years old

In the fleeting window of just 24 hours, humanity has witnessed the pinnacle of greatness. Time, the ultimate arbiter of our existence, holds within it the potential for unparalleled achievement. The only obstacle standing in the way of your own greatness lies in the manner in which you choose to allocate this most precious resource.

La phrase : "Je suis homme et rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger" me semble être, sinon le dernier mot de la sagesse, en tout cas l'un des plus profonds, et ce que j'aime chez Etienne, c'est qu'il le prend à la lettre, c'est même ce qui selon moi lui donne le droit d'être juge. De ce qui le fait humain, pauvre, faillible, magnifique, il ne veut rien retrancher, et c'est aussi pourquoi dans le récit de sa vie je ne veux, moi, rien couper.

El hombre que se cree superior, inferior o incluso igual a otro hombre no conoce la realidad.»

L'immagine che conservo della mezz'ora passata con loro è una scena da film dell'orrore. Ci siamo noi, puliti e in ordine, incolumi, e attorno a noi la cerchia dei lebbrosi, dei radioattivi, dei naufraghi tornati allo stato selvaggio. Solo il giorno prima erano come noi, noi eravamo come loro, ma a loro è capitato qualcosa che a noi non è capitato, e adesso apparteniamo a due umanità separate.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Essa dà, secondo me, un senso concreto, vicino, familiare, all'al di là:

la libertà dell'uomo tocca il suo vertice: il gesto dell'offerta, quel gesto di amore a Dio e agli uomini che riesce «incomprensibile» al mondo,

Si è perduto il senso del verbo donarsi

Il dolore non ha volto, non ha un nome certo, non serve a niente, e, tuttavia, voi vedrete che il dolore è più tangibile dei volti, è più sicuro degli amici, è più fecondo dei nostri lavori.

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

But now, at the table, behind the fall of the tablecloth, behind the sheath of skin, hanging head downwards between cliffs of bone, was the baby, its arms all but clasped about its neck, its face aslant upon its arms, hair painted upon its skull, closed, secret eyes, a diver poised in albumen, ancient and epic, shot with delicate spasms, as old as Pharaoh in its tomb.