Quotes about Humanity
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
- Pope John Paul II
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Thomas Paine
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Victor Hugo
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
- William Faulkner
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
- William Faulkner
And man will go on. Man, not men.
- Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
- CS Lewis