Quotes About Humanity

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

The Son of God became man for our salvation but only in Mary and through Mary.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.