Browsing Quotes With Tag: humanity (66)
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“What characterizes the human race more,” Karla once asked me, “cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it?” I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterizes the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would’ve annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You know, most people around the world believe that there is a great conflict in the universe, a conflict between good and evil. Well, this is not true. It’s true that there is a conflict, but the conflict only exists in the human mind, not in the universe. It’s not true for the plants or the animals. It’s not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It’s only true for humans. And the conflict in the human mind is not really between good and evil. The real conflict in our mind is between the truth and what is not the truth, between the truth and lies. Good and evil are just the result of that conflict.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground.
Trout’s leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Regarding the human race] “earthbound at the misty bottom of the universe.”
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!