Quotes About Humanity

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Be kind to an old man.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.