Quotes about Humanity
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
- Euripides
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
- George Eliot
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
- George Eliot
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
- George W. Bush
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
- GK Chesterton
Art is the signature of man.
- GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
- Greg Koukl