Quotes about Humanity
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
- William Hazlitt
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
- Oscar Wilde
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
- Sojourner Truth
God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
- Anonymous
Revenge is an inhuman word.
- Seneca
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
- Anonymous
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett