Quotes about Humanity
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
- Confucius
The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
- DL Moody
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
- Albert Camus
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
- Charles Dickens
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
- James G. Frazer
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
- John Wesley
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
- Karl Barth
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
- St. Augustine