Quotes About Humanity

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

To laugh is proper to man.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.