Quotes About Humanity

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.