Quotes About Humanity

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

Art is the signature of man.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.