Quotes About Humanity

The mother of all living.

And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

The essence of man is imperfection.

There is no perfection in humanity.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.