Quotes about Humanity
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
— Charles Dickens
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
— James G. Frazer
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
— John Wesley
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
— Karl Barth
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
— St. Augustine
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
— St. Augustine
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
— William Law
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
— Abraham Lincoln