Quotes About Humanity

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.

God is Man's greatest invention

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

God became man, that we might be gods.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible