Quotes About Humanity

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.