Quotes About Humanity

Only great men have great faults.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.