Quotes About Humanity

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

...the infallible man does not exist.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.