Quotes about Humanity

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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 creatures that cannot.

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.

Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;

There is one end we all have — not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being — and that is happiness.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There