Quotes About Humanity

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.