Quotes about Humanity
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
- Reinhold Niebuhr
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau