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Quotes About Humanity

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
~ Walt Whitman
To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
~ A. D. Gordon
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
~ Abigail Adams
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
~ Albert Camus
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
~ Blaise Pascal
A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.
~ Robert M. Hensel
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
~ Salmon P. Chase
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
~ Sitting Bull
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.
~ Stuart Briscoe
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
~ Thiruvalluvar
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
~ Walt Whitman
The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.
~ Harlow Shapley
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
~ Jack LaLanne
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
~ Jean Anouilh
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch