Quotes About Humanity

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

Every country my country, and every man my brother.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.