Quotes About Humanity

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.