Quotes About Humanity

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish." (161)

Jesus was no ivory-tower philosopher but a down-to-earth man who understood that much of the good of human life is to be found in taste, touch, smell, and the small attentions of one human being for another.

Ye are brothers! ye are men!And we conquer but to save.

Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other; this fearful and wonderful Life fearful and horrible; and Satan has his place in all hearts!

A Good Book is the purest essence of a Human Soul ''.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

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

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.

at no time in my life have I been a person to hold myself polluted by the touch or approach of any creature that wore a human shape: on the contrary, from my very earliest youth it has been my pride to converse familiarly, more Socratico, with all human beings, man, woman, and child, that chance might fling my way; a practice …. which becomes a man who would be a philosopher.

So blended and intertwisted in this life are occasions of laughter and of tears

For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

we then must ask: Who are the brothers and sisters? Are they the people in this block or rural area? Or are they everyone in this city . . . or this state . . . or this nation? Or in our global village, would our neighbors include the third and fourth worlds as well as the first and second? If one answers yes to this last question, how could he possibly get norms for poverty when there are such vast differences among the four worlds?

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.