Quotes About Humanity

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.