Quotes About Humanity

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?