Quotes about Humanity
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
— Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
— Henry David Thoreau
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
— Herman Melville
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
— Herman Melville
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville