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Quotes tagged ‘humanity’
Traveling shows us that we have more similarities with people from other cultures than differences, that the world isn’t that scary after all, and that people are fundamentally good.
Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
I'm just pain covered with skin.
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.
So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was still saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.
And in the end, we were all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
The world we know may be gone, but keeping our humanity, that's a choice.