Quotes About Humanity

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

Man differs more from man than man from beast

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Am I not a man and brother?

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?