Quotes About Humanity

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?