Quotes About Humanity

Lincoln, the Man of the People

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.