Quotes About Humanity

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

He who is less than just is less than man.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

all men are the same age.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.