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Quotes About Humanity

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
~ Confucius
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
~ Confucius
A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
~ Dalai Lama
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
~ Denis Diderot
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
~ Doris Lessing
It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.
~ Dorothy Day
Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
~ Edmund Burke
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
~ Edmund Burke
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."
~ Edward Young
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
~ Elie Wiesel
Man is a robot with defects.
~ Emile M. Cioran
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
~ Epicurus
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
~ Eric Hoffer
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
~ Eric Pianka
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
~ Euripides
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
~ Ezra Cornell
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
~ F. R. Scott
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
~ Francis Ponge
All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.
~ Francis Schaeffer
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
~ Francoise Sagan