When someone behaves like a beast, he says: ‘After all, one is only human.’ But when he is treated like a beast, he says, ‘After all, one is human.’
Human - Humanity Quotes
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy – common clay, if you like – eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others – the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite […]
We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the prairies because we were made of sugar-candy.
Use human means as if there were no divine ones, and divine means as if there were no human ones.
To be human is to recognize the cultural perspectives that bind us to tribe, sect, religion, or nation, and to rise above them. It is to feel the pain of the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the refugee, the starving child, the slave, the victim. To be human is to break the ties of cultural conformity and […]
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Mr. Pound (Ezra Pound) is humane, but not human
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be human.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
When people try to find an ultimate meaning and value in human life, their minds seem to go in a certain direction. They have not been coerced to do this; it is something that seems natural to humanity.
