Quotes About Humanity

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.