Top 100 Man Humanity Quotes
#1. In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down, he says.
Pierce Brown
#2. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
Isaac Newton
#3. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.
David B. Lentz
#4. The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... The real enemy then is humanity itself.
Aurelio Peccei
#5. There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
#6. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Lord Henry Wotton
#7. In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
Jacques Maritain
#8. Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
Pope John Paul II
#9. Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Adolf Hitler
#10. It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
Paul Winchell
#12. We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.
Jay Woodman
#13. For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity - the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5 (NLT) Jesus is Lord!! He is the Only Way!!
Timothy
#14. Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?
Thomm Quackenbush
#15. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
Kohta Hirano
#16. Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.
John Ruskin
#17. Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
Erich Fromm
#18. The truth is that the Man who walked among us was a demonstration, not of unveiled deity, but of perfect humanity.
A.W. Tozer
#19. Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.
James Hervey Johnson
#20. I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child's play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.
Bhagat Singh
#21. Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.
Suzy Kassem
#22. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
Norman Vincent Peale
#23. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Roger Zelazny
#24. Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
Georges Bernanos
#25. The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.
Eraldo Banovac
#26. To accept that man has only mind and body but not any soul will be very useful for humanity to build a better future. Accepting truth always gives you a chance to find the solution!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.
Stephanie Dray
#28. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#29. I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
C.S. Lewis
#30. Man must be free or he will not survive.
John Kramer
#31. If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Mark Twain
#32. Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...
Jacques Tardi
#33. For more than two million years man has been a hunter, and he still hasn't found what he wants.
Jack Deveny
#34. Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
Irving Stone
#35. If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying to say the same things and that the writer is only a man who says out loud what other people think or whisper.
Eugene Ionesco
#36. The fate of one man or woman is the fate of all men and women.
Marty Rubin
#37. While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.
Maya Angelou
#38. The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23
Felix Wantang
#39. I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, "Man is the measure", and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.
E. M. Forster
#41. The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because ... he was a single man.
John Ortberg
#42. No man is born to change the world, but just to add a piece of humanity to it.
Eraldo Banovac
#44. In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.
Stephen Jay Gould
#46. ...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.
Greg Iles
#48. A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.
Anuj
#49. One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.
Robert F. Hartley
#50. And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means
W.E.B. Du Bois
#51. You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur
#52. Limbo. It's not Heaven, and it's not Hell. It's the in-between.' (Edward speaking about reading the Divine Comedy.
Luke: 'This was, I realised, my new address.
Jodi Picoult
#53. Jesus takes upon himself the whole of humanity, the whole history of man, and he gives it a decisive re-orientation toward a new manner of human existence.
Pope Benedict XVI
#54. If the United Nations could bring lasting peace, man could say to God, "We do not need You anymore. We have brought peace on earth and have organized humanity in righteousness." All of these schemes are patchwork remedies that a sick and dying world must use while waiting for the Great Physician.
Billy Graham
#55. The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Ashley Montagu
#56. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.
Maria Montessori
#57. To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#58. All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
Konrad Lorenz
#59. It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.
Ismail Al-Faruqi
#60. Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Most annoying circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has broken all the ties of humanity. You have come to trouble my existence.
Jules Verne
#62. There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Spike Milligan
#64. Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
Ralph Ellison
#65. Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
Gustave Flaubert
#66. We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#67. France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
Alfred De Vigny
#68. It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters
#69. A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
James Payn
#70. O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely - "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien" - I wager he finds nothing!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in touch with his own humanity."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#72. The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity.
A.B. Simpson
#73. Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.
B.R. Ambedkar
#74. I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
Richie Sambora
#75. I have always believed that the man who begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are.
George Mikes
#78. The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Ashley Montagu
#79. When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small ... Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value.
Renee Wade
#80. The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T. S. Eliot
#81. Humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts
James Allen
#82. There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.
Idries Shah
#83. Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.
Milan Kundera
#84. The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Charles Sumner
#85. Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity - nothing more and nothing less.
Mitch Finley
#86. I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
#89. This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.
David Platt
#91. Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.
Mary Wigman
#92. The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#93. If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#94. Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.
Brian Rathbone
#95. Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer
#96. In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church ... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.
Pope John Paul II
#97. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#98. Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
#99. This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connection between apes and man: that the social organization of chimpanzees is almost too human to be true.
Frans De Waal
#100. To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
