Quotes About Humanity

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.