Quotes About Humanity

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

It is one soul which animates all men.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?