Quotes About Humanity

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.