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Quotes about Humanity

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
- Samuel Johnson
All men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- Thomas Merton
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
- Charles Swindoll
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
- DH Lawrence
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
- Euripides
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
- Albert Einstein
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
- Albert Schweitzer
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
- Albert Schweitzer