Quotes About Humanity

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Man is always exploited through fear.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Vaster is Man than his works.