Quotes About Humanity

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

Even bad men love their mommas.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

War among men defiles this world.

No man is so great as mankind.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?