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Humanity Quotes
"A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you."
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"And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls, and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!"
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"All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."
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"A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature's presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family's needs."
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"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?"
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"I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me."
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"Our miseries are inseparable, so is our every single blessing."
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"I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man."
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"If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur."
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"It's embarrassing to be human."
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"I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine."
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"Benefits of Being Nice - You set positive karma into motion. What you give is what you get back in return. You are more likable. People will treat you better. You will reduce personal stress. You will make friends more easily. You can improve someone else's day. You will have less drama in your life. It takes less energy than being otherwise. It makes you a more valuable team player. You create a sense of emotional safety for others. It can keep you physically and psychologically safe. You set a positive example for others to play nicely. You will build bridges of cooperation and collaboration. You will improve personal and professional interactions. Lastly, being nice feels nice!"
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"Kindness: It's ours to share."
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"The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness."
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"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."
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"Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an inclusive exploration of the intricacies of what it encompasses to be human. Stories enable us to comprehend the ultimate concerns of human existence and explicitly address the unalterable part of humanity."
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"No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity.When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them."
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"Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be."
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"I don't know what to do, he said. "No harm in that. I've never known what to do, said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. "Been completely at a loss my whole life. He hesitated. "I think it's called being human, or something."
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"As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe."
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"In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise."
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"Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity."
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"All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways."
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