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Quotes About Humanity

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
~ Peter De Vries
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.
~ Pico Iyer
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
~ Pierre Corneille
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
~ Pope John Paul II
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.
~ Ralph Nader
Never see the face of man till you have seen his face who is our life, our all.
~ Robert E. Murray
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
~ Robert Frost
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
~ Henry Fielding
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
~ Heraclitus
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
~ Heraclitus
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
~ Herman Melville
No man is born without faults.
~ Horace
We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
~ Hugh B. Brown
The best of men are men at best
~ J. C. Ryle
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
~ James F. Cooper
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
~ James Henry Breasted
During war we imprison the rights of man.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
~ John Donne