Quotes About Humanity

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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

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

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.