Quotes About Humanity

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.