Quotes About Humanity

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.