Quotes about Humanity
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
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
— John Milton
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
— John Stott
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
— Mark Twain
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
— St. John Chrysostom