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Humanity Quotes (page 271)

John Ruskin quote: "Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. John Ruskin
Adlai E. Stevenson quote: "The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are..."
The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. Adlai E. Stevenson
Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished. Nikos Kazantzakis
Mason Cooley quote: "After desolation, grief brings back our humanity"
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity Mason Cooley
We gather at night to celebratebeing human. Sometimes we call out lowto the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! Weeat the clouds and evening light. Weare slaves tasting the royal wine. Rumi
A. A. Milne quote: "No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that..."
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A. A. Milne
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. George Orwell
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory. F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster quote: "Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
Nature pulls one way and human nature another. E. M. Forster
Mark Twain quote: "A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of..."
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. Mark Twain
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. Richard Wright
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. Jeanette Winterson
People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings. James Baldwin
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectual mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return. Kathy Acker
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl

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