Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Quotes tagged ‘humanity’
Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
So you look for patterns because that’s what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And you look in movies and songs and the things that you read for symbols, points and swirls that match your own. But the only real pattern there is, is the one you make when you hol…
Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can’t allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.
I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be…
People think that the world itself is overflowing with beauty, but they forget that they are its cause.
I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
That’s the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.
Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?
The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.
I want to be a force for real good…I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giv…
You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door.
— Jenji Kohan, Natalie 'Fig' Figueroa, Alysia Reiner, amazon.com
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.