Quotes about Humanity

There is one end we all have — not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being — and that is happiness.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.