Quotes About Humanity

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.