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 […]
Human - Humanity Quotes
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.
Whenever I meet anyone, even a stranger, I have always the same feeling: ‘I am meeting another member of the human family.’ This attitude has deepened my affection and respect for all beings. May this natural wish be my small contribution to world peace. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and a more […]
Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families – I call it the human condition.
We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational… Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human […]
The idea that defines all humanism is that the world is not a given world, foreign to man, one to which he has to force himself to yield from without. It is the world willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
