#Humanity Quotes

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”

“What's the news?None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,Then is doomsday near.”

“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!”

“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.”

“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”

“Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.”

“But now behold,In the quick forge and working-house of thought,How London doth pour out her citizens!”

“The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.”

“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”

“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”

“There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.”

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.”

“All mankind love a lover.”

“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”

“And thou, all-shaking thunder,Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at onceThat makes ingrateful man!”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

“If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.”

“A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.”

“I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

“I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.”

“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”

“You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?”

“Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.”

“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.”

“I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

“What a piece of work is a man”

“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”

“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”

“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”

“There is no king or sovereign stateThat can fix a hero's rate;Each to all is venerable.”

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”

“The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.”

“Men from children nothing differ.”