We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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When your Excellency Considers my Sufferings, and the Cruel Situation I am in, your Own Humanity and feelings as a Soldier, will render every thing I can say farther on the Subject unnecessary.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the…
I have a great deal of respect for the animals that I kill, and I feel remorse and all of the emotions that come with it. The thing inside me that drives me to go out and hunt is very animal. But the remorse, emotion and respect I feel, and the closeness to God that I feel when I’m out there, is my…
Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.
Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job.
Whose severity excludes every improvement and reintegration of the condemned into society, can never be humanly just.
Stop accepting what “authority figures” have told you you have to do. You do not have to consent to compromising your values or personal boundaries, whatever they may be. You do not have to push people down to lift yourself up. This society has indoctrinated us with certain beliefs at a great cost t…
I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves.
— Simon Mirren, Penelope Garcia, Kirsten Vangsness, imdb.com
Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: Prentiss, this is the job, and I need to know that you can be objective. Emily Prentiss: And I need to know that I can be human.
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Aaron Hotchner, Thomas Gibson, imdb.com
Love is a force for justice and peace. It’s the best fuel for the work. If we try to fuel social change with bitterness, we’ll eventually run on empty and face the danger of transforming into the inhumanity we oppose.
Humanity in the abstract will never inspire you in the same way as human beings you meet. Poverty is not going to motivate you. But people will motivate you.
The people who say technology has disconnected you from others are wrong. So are the people who say technology automatically connects you to others. Technology is just a tool. It's a powerful tool, but it's just a tool. Deep human connection is very different. It's not a tool. It's not a means to an…
But you can change the way you think about other people. You can choose to see their humanity first -- the one big thing that makes them the same as you, instead of the many things that make them different from you.
It might take centuries, but sooner or later, Hell will burn away your humanity. Every hell-bound soul, every one, turns into something else.
This is the world we live in. People relying on each other’s mistakes to manipulate one another and use one another, even relate to one another. A warm, messy circle of humanity.
We both know the closest you’ll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it.
— Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder, imdb.com
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…