Quotes About Humanity

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.