#humanity

Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human. ↗

— Loknath

#humanity-and-society #love

For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possibilities of sinister deeds that lie hidden in every human being. A little child that loves a doll can become an old, crafty, secret murderer. How horrible! And perhaps it is still more horrible to think that, while the human envelope remains totally unchanged, every word of the letter within may become altered, and a message of peace fade into a sentence of death. ↗

— Robert Smythe Hichens

#humanity #mind #change

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#humanity #love #water #love

The changes that are external and limited to surface are temporary and fade away quickly. We should make the inner changes so that the reflection of them outside would be what we expect. ↗

— Ilia M. R.

#life #change

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? ↗

— Hal Duncan

#hatred #inhumanity #death

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long? ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#humanity #love #mistakes #love

All women are like mothers but they don't notice themselves". ↗

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#love #society-humanity #love

The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is survival. ↗

— Carlos J. Cortes

#inspirational #inspirational

On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity over a misfortune, you might miss an opportunity for a redeeming triumph. And for every act of inhumanity, the species managed to committ a hundred acts of kindness; so if you were the type to brood, you would be more sensible if you dwelt on the remarkable goodwill with which most people treated others even in a society where the cultural elites routinely mocked virtue and celebrated brutality. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 5 ↗

— Dean Koontz

#change

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#inspirational #sentiment #inspirational