Quotes About Humanity

A man's country is the world.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

No man is an island unto himself.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.