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Quotes About Humanity

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
~ Archibald MacLeish
A slave is but half a man.
~ Aristophanes
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
~ Ashley Montagu
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
~ C. S. Lewis
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
~ C. S. Lewis
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
~ Calvin Coolidge
... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
~ Carl Rakosi
There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
~ Carl Sandburg
One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.
~ Malcolm X
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
~ Margaret Mead
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
~ Mark Twain
One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.
~ Mark Twain
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
~ Michael Shaara
Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.
~ Milan Kundera
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
~ Mother Teresa
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
~ Neil Lowe
Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."
~ Pat Robertson