Quotes About Humanity

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

The sky is an enormous man.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.