Quotes About Humanity

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.