Humanity Quotes

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Sir William Temple

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Francis Bacon

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Sumner

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Sir Arthur Kent

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.

Kingsley Amis

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Andre Breton

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Edward Hoagland

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Henry Miller

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Henry Miller

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Roy Chapman Andrews