Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Death, Sex

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4

• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

• The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Helping Others, People, Humanity

• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Justice, Diversity

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949.

• The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Humanity, Individuality, Speak

  "Force of Circumstances". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, p. 73, 1963.

• The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fate, Names, Humanity

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

• In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tired, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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