Quotes About Humanity

I build only living stones--men.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

God sinks into dust before man.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.