Quotes About Humanity

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

Man is no man, but a wolf

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.