Quotes About Humanity

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

The fate of man is man.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Man is a bad animal.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.