Quotes About Humanity

My friend!" I exclaimed, "man is but man; and, whatever be the extent of his reasoning powers, they are of little avail when passion rages within, and he feels himself confined by the narrow limits of nature.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Uwa?amy, ?e cz?owiekowi odpowiada przypuszczenie, ?e istnieje co? niepoznawalnego, lecz nie powinien on ustanawia? granic dla swych poszukiwa?

Estamos acostumbrados a que los seres humanos se rían de lo que no entienden, a que rezonguen ante lo bueno y lo bello, que a menudo les resulta fastidioso

Ah insan?n kendinden yak?nmaya hakk? olabilir mi!

A i onima je dobro koji svoja dronjava zaposlenja, pa ?ak i strasti, krste velelepnim imenima i pripisuju ih ljudskom rodu. Kao pothvate ispolinske, preduzete za spas i blagostanje celokupnog ?ove?anstva. Blago onome ko može da je takav!

Ma cosa è mai l'uomo, per poter lagnarsi di se stesso?

Sempre la speranza di ristabilire l'antica felicità si riaccende nell'essere umano.

Ach, so viele tausend Menschen kennen, Dumpf sich treibend, kaum ihr eigen Herz, Schweben zwecklos hin und her und rennen Hoffnungslos in unversehnen Schmerz;

Es ist ein einförmiges Ding um das Menschengeschlecht.

O Bestimmung des Menschen!

Mankind? It is an abstraction. There are, always have been, and always will be, men and only men.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

My work as a painter… is the condensation, the concentration of the hidden, but ever present, sadness that is in all people

The words human and humane both come from the same Latin root, humus, the earth that bears us, to which we all return and on which we are asked to walk together in humility during the time that is ours.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," Eisenhower said. "This is not a way of life….Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

We have always had reluctance to see a tract of land which is empty of men as anything but a void. The "waste howling wilderness" of Deuteronomy is typical. The Oxford Dictionary defines wilderness as wild or uncultivated land which is occupied "only" by wild animals. Places not used by us are "wastes." Areas not occupied by us are "desolate." Could the desolation be in the soul of man?

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

These things shall be—a loftier raceThan e'er the world hath known shall riseWith flame of freedom in their souls,And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Trouble my dear readers is everywhere. We are all in this world to bear our share of it and we must not be surprised when those who inflict it appear suddenly as though out of nowhere.

When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.

I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?

Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.