Quotes About Humanity

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!