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Quotes About Humanity

Man created God in his own image.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
~ Alain Bombard
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
~ Paul Ricoeur
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.
~ Hugh Howey
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
~ Carl Linnaeus
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
~ Neville Cardus
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
~ Che Guevara
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
~ Mark Twain
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.
~ Mary Wigman
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
~ Kwame Nkrumah
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
~ U Thant
Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.
~ John of Kronstadt
The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.
~ Mildred Fay Jefferson
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
~ Os Guinness
If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
~ John Calvin
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
~ Farley Mowat
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
~ Plato
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
~ David Hume
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best of men are just men at best.
~ Alistair Begg