Quotes About Humanity

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.