Quotes About Humanity

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

The laws of men are not infallible.

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

All men & women are created equal

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.