Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed from the outset to be able to reach agreement with the others because all participate in the same thinking...

Boast of QuietnessWritings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like tounderstand them.Their day is...

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Men are Like Guns They Shoot someone and broke them into pieces inside.

Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

People who wouldn’t dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

…there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

want,” they don’t care. I don’t care.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.

Once someone asked me, “What do you want to be your epitaph?” So I said, “Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

In wars, it is always the children who suffer the most.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

As a traveler, I’ve often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

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...

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason...

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma....

Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its...

UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS… YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we...

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let conscience speak that which the heart feels to be unacceptable, or when we...

They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come...

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life’s test.

We are all blessed with gifts equally but of different types in our life. The person who wishes to be appreciated for his real worth has to often wait a bit longer till his gifts...

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Here we live in the illusion of happiness where we forget that we were created to handle the balance not just to bear it. We brought into being from nothingness not to live in deep...

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to...

touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!

The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus,...

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more...

Natafuta mwanamke mwenye utu, wema, uaminifu na tabia njema – sifa ambazo ataendelea kuwa nazo hata uzeeni. Sifa hizi zinaweza kubadilika kwa sababu ya maisha au kwa sababu ya mapenzi ya Mungu, lakini mabadiliko haya...

I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed...

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.