Quotes about Humanity
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
— Confucius
It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.
— Dorothy Day
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
— Edmund Burke
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
— Elie Wiesel
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
— Epicurus
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
— Euripides
All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.
— Francis Schaeffer
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher