Quotes About Humanity

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Man's the bad child of the universe

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.