Quotes About Humanity

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Cruelty is the only sin.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.