Quotes About Humanity

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.