Quotes about Humanity
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
- Mark Twain
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.
- Milan Kundera
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
- Mother Teresa
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
- Henry Ward Beecher
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
- John Donne
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
- John Milton
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
- John Tillotson
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
- St. Augustine
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
- Thomas Merton
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
- Charles Spurgeon