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Quotes About Humanity

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, helpful and good!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
~ John Fowles
The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
~ John Fowles
The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Man is more than constitutions.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
~ John Grier Hibben
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
~ John Keegan
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
~ John Milton
Man has injured every animal he has touched.
~ John Muir
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
~ John Ruskin
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
~ John Steinbeck
Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.
~ John Steinbeck
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
~ John Stott
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.
~ John Stuart Mill
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.
~ John Stuart Mill
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
~ Mark Twain
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.
~ John Carlos