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| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. | | George Santayana | |
| No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. | | Ann Landers | |
| Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. | | Abraham Maslow | |
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| The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. | | Voltaire | |
| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| There's nothing funnier than the human animal. | | Walt Disney | |
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| To err is human - but it feels divine | | Mae West | |
| To err is human, but is feels divine. | | Mae West | |
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| We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it | | Ayn Rand | |
| We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself | | Samuel Butler | |
| What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it | | Thomas Carlyle | |
