Ihara Saikaku Quotes

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

None of us believe that in order to run a business, you have to leave your humanity at home.

We should just be good humans.

When it comes to me I follow the religion of humanity.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.