Quotes About Humanity

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.