Quotes about Humanity
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.
- Andrew Carnegie
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
- Calvin Coolidge
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
- Mark Twain
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
- Pope John Paul II
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
- Henry Ford
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
- John Bunyan
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- John Quincy Adams
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford