Quotes About Humanity

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

Speech is civilization itself.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.