Quotes About Humanity

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

In every man there is something of all men.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.