Quotes about Humanity
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
— John F. Kennedy
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
— John Updike
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
— Cicero
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
— Cicero
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.