Human - Humanity Quotes

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: The village would be made up of: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (both North AND South), 8 Africans, 70 would be […]

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

I often wonder why any very atrociously cruel conduct is called inhuman; it seems to me that sort of thing is about as human as anything one can think of.

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human […]

Human life must be some form of mistake.

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine; And Peace, the human dress.