Humanity Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humanity Ifs Men Nature of man Raises
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human… — Armando Valladares Copy Share Image
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By opposing the human in the man and thus activating the inhuman does nothing else than dehumanize that man by further alienating him from his self and along with it, as man is a social individual, to create a society increasingly absurd, selfish and unfair to the human being that will be exiled to the ideological suburbs of such a… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is set before… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“[He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man.… — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image