If I could get my membership fee back, I’d resign from the human race.
Human - Humanity Quotes
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. There is a very real thing which may be called the love of humanity; in our time it exists almost entirely among what are […]
We have been so taken up with the phenomena of masculinity and femininity, that our common humanity has largely escaped notice. We know we are human, naturally, and are very proud of it; but we do not consider in what our humanness consists… It is “manly” to do this; it is “womanly” to do that; […]
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.’
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
