humanity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

75 humanity Quotes
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“I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.”
Terence Quotes
“If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".”
Rebecca West Quotes
“Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.”
Paul West Quotes
“He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.”
Willa Cather Quotes
“It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.”
Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
“The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.”
Martin Esslin Quotes
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.”
William Hazlitt Quotes
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
“Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.”
Ernest Renan Quotes
“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
Adam Smith Quotes
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.”
Charles Sumner Quotes
“The so-called human race.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.”
Storm Jameson Quotes
“The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.”
Joseph Fabry Quotes
“Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.”
Indira Gandhi Quotes
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.”
Herman Hesse Quotes
“Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.”
Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
Denis Diderot Quotes
“Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.”
Aristotle Quotes
“Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].”
Bible Quotes
“If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.”
Jean Baudrillard Quotes
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
Holden Caulfield Quotes