Quotes About Humanity

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

What man is, only history tells.

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.