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Humanity Quotes (page 202)

Max Frisch quote: "-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they..."
-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes. Max Frisch
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect. Flann O'Brien
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. Edward Gibbon
...they are able to forgive themselves, as a wise man once said, for being human. That is knowing that life is hard and virtue rare, they keep the ancient faith that it is better to love than to hate, to live fully even if imperfectly. Charles Van Doren
Deborah Tannen quote: "A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a..."
A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world. Deborah Tannen
I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone. The little nourishment I get. Elinor Wylie
Carl Jung quote: "Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to..."
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. Carl Jung
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. Harper Lee
I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble," she said. "They've certainly kept me humble. Larry McMurtry
Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of human values… . Socially it means the renunciation of all place-hunting, a break with the cult of the “star,” an open eye both upwards and downwards, especially in the choice of one’s more intimate friends, and pleasure in private life as well as courage to enter public life. Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the historical ends of humanity. An act he has once committed is irrecvocable, and that act of his, coinciding in time with millions of acts of others, has an historical value... 'The hearts of kinds are in the hand of God.' The king is the slave of history... Every action that seems to them an act of their own freewill, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in... Leo Tolstoy
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. Swami Vivekananda
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you. Anne Rice
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"No, I'm just opportunistic."I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great. Charlaine Harris
For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature. Kathy Acker

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