Human - Humanity Quotes

Man does not always live up to Humanity, but comes closer by trying.

The human race seems to have improved on everything except people.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile. Not a single one but has at some time wept.

To err is human – but it feels divine.

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.”

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Every man beareth the whole stamp of the human condition.

Many writers have talked about the humanitarian trap. By this they usually mean the problem of aid prolonging wars, or giving great powers an excuse either for intervention or nonintervention. But the first and greatest humanitarian trap is this need to simplify, if not actually lie about, the way things are in the crisis zones, […]

I am a man; I consider nothing human alien to me.

Pfui! The very words human, humanity, humanism make one sick. For the sake of humanity as such, I wouldn’t lift a finger, much less write a story.