Quotes About Humanity

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

We die alone, but we live among men.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.