Quotes About Humanity

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.