- “It’s a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.” ― Margarita Engle, Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
- “Turns out, ignorance often comes with an exciting, unexpected side effect: cruelty. To people who think they’re the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that.” ― Seanan McGuire, Tricks for Free
- “It wasn’t true, the evidence was faked, but the odd thing is that, whether it s true or not, the consequences are the same: one large group of human beings or another turned out to be triple-distilled sons-of-bitches, which proves that we all have it in us. Whether the Communists staged a diabolical lie or the Americans sowed plague in China, the one thing that matters is that, as a man, you’re in the gutter, Colonel Babcock.” ― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
- “Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.” ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
- “I told her they were called stepping-stones because man likes to think that all of nature was set up especially for his feet.” ― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
- “La verdadera pobreza no es la falta de pan, ni de techo, la verdadera pobreza viene de la sensación de no ser nadie.” ― María Teresa de Calcuta
- “I urge you to listen. I beg you to pay attention for these are the most important words I will ever pen: Do not succumb to the half-life! To the indifference and apathy of those cool and aloof individuals. Nothing affects them, their lover cries out desperately for affection but they shrug their shoulders—for they are always shrugging— and transcend the messy drama of the human situation. O this transcendental invincibility—I tell you: the shit of the bull! We are not gods. We are human. Even Christ chose immanence so He could feel as the people felt, suffer as they did. You must revel in your neuroses, your sensitivities and sensibilities. Burn your excitable character, do not extinguish this fire. Stay within. Taste the immediacy of living. Be in life with others. Do not yield to the hypocrisy the world demands! Do not succumb to the shadows, to the half-light, to the half-life. We are not gods. Be human.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “There is chaos all around and you are looking for oneness and unity. Most of you’re sticking with a unit called body which hardly lasts 100 years, or to units such as family, cast, religion, country or humanity. Humanity is the largest of them which lasts a few thousand years. That is nothing compared to the eternal oneness, the unit that lasts forever. Find that!” ― Shunya
- “Giving to others, what belongs to yours, there lies the happiness but people learn to take away from others.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.” ― Cicero
- “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” ― Horace Mann
- “Leave a trail of light behind youEverywhere you go. Whose darkness you’ll illuminateYou may never know.” ― L.R. Knost
- “The mystery of existence will always remain a mystery. All we know for sure is what the ancients knew: each succeeding generation forms a link in the braided cord of humanity. Each of our lives is shallower if we do not know and pay homage to where we came from. The past forms the world that we currently inhabit, and our actions today, comparable to our ancestors’ actions of yesterday, will reverberate in the history of tomorrow. While the tools of our trades evolve from generation to generation, the way that people behave and the motives behind their behavior remains constant. Each generation must chart the same dangerous territories of the heart. Each succeeding generation must diagnosis the illnesses that imperil their mental, physical, social, and economic wellbeing. Life is brutally painful and extraordinary joyful.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “Cities are humans’ shoddy attempts at making ecosystems.” ― Elliot Connor, Human Nature: How to be a Better Animal
- “But American group blindness abroad is also rooted in some of our noblest ideals: tolerance, equality, individualism, the power of reason to triumph over irrational hatred, and the conviction that all men are united by their common humanity and love of liberty.” ― Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” ― Suman Jyoty Thera
- “more to be a human being with” ― Gary D. Schmidt
- Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
- “The world is better ignored if you want to change it.” ― Victor Vote
- “Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?” ― Morris Gleitzman, Then
- “After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by intelligence, even though we are no less ferocious than them.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “ان تمنح الأمان لشخص يقتله الخوف لهو أعظم من كل هدايا الدنيا” ― سعاد مصطفى, تزوجت ساديا
- “It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “I never answered your question, if I’d ever thought about being human. Once. I was on a track in the andes, and a hummingbird flew up to me and just hovered there staring at me. Its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun… And I thought, ‘what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive, to be constantly on the verge of death, and how satisfying every day must be that it survived…’ And that was the only time I thought about being human.” ― klaus mikaelson
- “Be humble, be gentle, be kind.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
- “The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
- Sometimes a hug is worth more than a thousand words. Unknown
- “But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
- “I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.” ― Albert Camus