Quotes About Humanity

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

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

I have no race 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.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The very West European states that went furthest toward welfare were also the larger imperial states that excluded from their generosity the vast bulk of humanity in the empire's territories.

Si d'aventure, tel se prend à douter de la fraternité des hommes et de l'humanité commune à tous les peuples et à toutes les races, qu'il parcoure leurs adages et leurs préceptes : il se rassurera.

What people have in common is "more the sense of a common enemy [or evil] than the commitment to a common culture." Human society is "universal because it is human, particular because it is a society.

this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.

For three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed animal...

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven's height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, that He may quicken them; and spin out and dig hells to themselves, that He may ransom them.

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].