Humanity Quotes - Page 68

So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a world waiting to be discovered, creatures which were there for our interaction. And the spark inside us often has to be spoken to, to be touched by the soul of another. It’s as if the spark is only visible through the lens of night vision, a set of goggles which only another human being can hand to us.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...

We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the greatest degree of learning, healing and transformation. This connection is a powerful thing, with the ability to transform lives, and ultimately transform human experience.

When we choose to reject those who live differently, we murder our humanity.

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

It is a grim job, this business of looking out over humanity.

You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

What matters is we are living beings.

Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond the understanding and control of a helpless humanity.

Angels and demons are shaped by humans. Even god is shaped by humanity. Who you are has been codified by the humans around you… family, friends, and even enemies.

i am not an angel ,and i don't want to be an angel.I Born as a Human and and my Biggest Task to keep my self Just a Human.

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among animals; under the Martian heel.

We are each, then, a sentence within the boundless book of humanity. The question is… What will our sentence read, how eloquently will it read, and who will read it?

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

We must not forget the beauty of humanity. At the core of our being, we must love humanity.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

you're going to love your way out of this.out of the hurt.out of the pain.you're going to love your way out of itand be free.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

We are one in spirit.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.

Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?

All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.

The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.

Human beings connect with a holy hug.

Every living soul must endure to strive.

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you

It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives by just one product a year.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.

We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.

I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

May God continue to give us strength for our daily work.

This plague... This curse... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some... dark place. We released it. We poked through the seabed and the oil erupted, painted us black, pulled our inner sickness out for everyone to see. Now here we are in this dry corpse of a world, rotting on our feet till there's nothing left but bones and the buzz of flies.