Quotes About Humanity

One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

What is human is immortal!

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I teach that all men are mad.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly; that the birthright of everyone is loving, caring, sharing, and abundance.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.