Quotes About Humanity

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.