Quotes about Humanity
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
- Thomas Adams
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature, and perfection supposes something that can be perfected.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not offended except by our acting contrary to our own good
- St. Thomas Aquinas
it remains for us to treat of His image,
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich