Quotes About Humanity

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.