Quotes about Humanity
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
- Dennis Prager
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
- George Washington
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
- Confucius
It is better to win souls than to conquer nations.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
- Henri Nouwen
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
- Albert Bandura
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
- CS Lewis
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
- CS Lewis