All I've ever really wanted was to know what it feels like to be human, and now we're going to do the most human thing of all: attempt something futile with a ton of unearned confidence and fail spectacularly!
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Quotes tagged ‘humanity’
Hell, you're a dick and you kill people, but I still see something human in you.
— Brian Young, Caroline Dries, Alaric Saltzman, Matthew Davis, imdb.com
After I died, I began to surrender the parts of myself that were no longer necessary. My desires, beliefs, ambitions, doubts, every trace of my humanity was discarded. I discovered when moving through eternity, it helps to travel lightly. In fact, I held onto only one thing. My memory.
— Oliver Goldstick, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com
You see me for what I am. A filthy monster desperately trying to hold on to the last shreds of its humanity.
— Mark Fish, Shonda Rhimes, Cyrus Beene, Jeff Perry, imdb.com
I’m confused that some people think civility is comparable to humanity.
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.
I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.
I have friends all over the world and have had deep life-changing conversations with them, which has allowed me to look at all cultures without a divide or barrier — the more I see and experience, the more human I feel. I am not my culture. I am me.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so…
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.
The silent miracle of human progress is too slow and too fragmented to ever qualify as news.
Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are d…
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
We need compassion, empathy, and the rule of law back in our country. We need to be treated as human beings, no matter the color of our skin.
If we have any shred of humanity left in ourselves, we must care for all human life—no matter their skin color, political ideology, or location in the world.
Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.