Quotes About Humanity

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

If you compare the City with the Forest, you may begin to wonder why it's man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh. "That's true," I said.

?yi olanlara iyiyim. ?yi olmayanlara iyiyim. Ve sonunda hep iyilik vard?r. Samimi olana samimiyim, samimi olmayana samimiyim. Ve sonunda hep samimiyet vard?r.

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.

Mais quelle famille solitaire avais-je donc ! J'étais même ébahi que deux de ses membres avaient pu s'assembler pour engendrer les deux suivants. Seulement, des solitaires qui feignent de ne pas l'être... voilà sans doute comment les familles se construisent, et comment la race des gens seuls est devenue si nombreuse.

Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hätte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu können. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns über andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen können, wie wir sind.

Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.

if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.

Violence defines humanity and determines headlines and elections and borders, the whole world boiled down to who hits whom harder.

A violência é o que define a humanidade, é ela que determina manchetes, decide eleições e estabelece fronteiras; o mundo inteiro se reduz à questão de quem bate em quem com mais força.

Of all beings man is the only one who himself names his own kind, as he is the only one whom God did not name.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Who am I to judge? Who are you to pass verdicts? Who puts us on the bench? Have we heard all the evidence, or the hundredth part of it? Is there any possibility of us doing so? Are we not all equally in the dock? There is something tragically comic about the spectacle of one human being judging another.

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.