Quotes about Humanity
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
— Oscar Wilde
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
— Confucius
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
— Confucius
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
— Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
— Confucius
If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?
— Confucius
I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
— Cormac McCarthy
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
— Cormac McCarthy
If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
— Cormac McCarthy
Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
— Cormac McCarthy