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Quotes About Humanity

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
~ John Carpenter
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
~ Albert Einstein
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
~ R. D. Laing
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
~ Mario Puzo
Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.
~ George Whitefield
All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
~ Barry Goldwater
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
~ Helen Prejean
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
~ Albert Schweitzer
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.
~ Leopold Kronecker
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
~ Saul Bellow
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
~ Mark Twain
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
~ Louis L'Amour
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
~ Erich Fromm
The healthy man does not torture others.
~ Carl Jung
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
~ George Whitefield
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
~ Michael Jackson
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
~ Joseph Addison
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
~ Morarji Desai
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
~ William Shakespeare