Quotes about Humanity

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Out of one man a race of men innumerable.

The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.