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I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.
C.S. Lewis
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Victor Hugo
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann, the closing paragra
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Dr Edward Mayhew
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
Jean Baudrillard
A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.
Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
Rene Daumal
