Quotes about Humanity
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
- Paul Washer
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
- CS Lewis
GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.
- Clement of Alexandria
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
- Paul Ricoeur
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
- Os Guinness
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
- DH Lawrence
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
- William Faulkner
Men are only as great as they are kind.
- Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
- John F. Kennedy