Quotes about Humanity
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
- Walt Whitman
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- Albert Camus
I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
- Ava DuVernay
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
- Khalil Gibran
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
- Edith Stein
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
- AW Tozer
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
- Lewis Carroll