Quotes About Humanity

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Love, yes. Word known to all men.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

The little man is still a man.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.