Quotes About Humanity

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

One can love any man that is generous.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.