Quotes about Humanity
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
- Henry David Thoreau
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
- Henry David Thoreau
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
- Herman Melville
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
- Herman Melville
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
- Herman Melville
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
- Herman Melville
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
- JI Packer
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
- Jacques Maritain