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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ”
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. ”
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ”
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ”
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ”
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law. ”
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ”
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ”
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ”
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. ”