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Quotes About Humanity

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
~ Pindar
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
~ Pope John Paul II
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.
~ Richard Lederer
A man is more than his failings.
~ Rick Reilly
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
~ Robert Briffault
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
~ Robert E. Howard
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
~ Robert Henri
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
~ Carl Sandburg
None but great men are capable of having great flaws.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
~ John O'Hara
All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
~ Albert Camus
In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.
~ Albert Einstein
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
~ Albert Einstein
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
~ Albert Einstein
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
~ Anand Neelakantan
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
~ Andre Malraux