Quotes About Humanity

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God