Quotes About Humanity

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.