Quotes About Humanity

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

In Adam's Fall We sinned all.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Speak after the manner of men.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

He who hates vice hates men.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.