Quotes About Humanity

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

We ask to be recognized as men.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Every monster was a man first.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.