42 Metaphors for humanity

But humanity is euer willinger to loue then hate: curtesie much forwarder to commend then dispraise: clemency infinitely proner to absolue then to condemn.

The principles upon which we legislated when removing the sugar duties is a mystery to me, unless I accept the solution, so degrading to the nation, "that humanity is a secondary consideration to £ s.d., and that justice goes for nothing.

Humanity is a lesson learned very slowly by the human race.

You have attempted to represent the whole by one-half; and we come to you to day for a recognition of the fact that humanity is not a unit; that it is a unity; and because we are one-half that go to make up that grand unity we come before you to-day and ask you to recognize our rights as citizens of this Republic.

With him, humanity is chief: science, art, wealth are its handmaidens.

As nature forms a single great organism, and from the stone to man describes a connected development, so humanity is a one great individual which passes through its several ages, from infancy (the Orient), through boyhood (Eygpt and Phoenicia), youth (Greece), and manhood (Rome), to old age (the Christian world).

Yet I laugh at this when I remember how they crept snake-like in the bushes, and tried to pick us off at the doors, and how they strove, without much danger to themselves, to run our pickets in on us, and get to see our backs turned, whereupon, doubtless, humanity would have been little thought of, and filibuster blood cheap enough.

That the stars in their courses fight against virtue, that humanity is in its nature a forlorn hope, this was the very spirit that through the whole of Stevenson's work sounded a trumpet to all the brave.

Whatever most dignifies humanity, and makes our labors sweet, and causes us to forget our pains, and kindles us to lofty contemplations, and prompts us to heroic sacrifice, is the most real and the most useful.

If we were all as sincere as you, humanity would not be the victim of the wicked notion of glory in suffering.

Humanity and Good-nature, Magnanimity, and a Sense of Honour, are as often the Qualifications of the Rich.

Thus humanity becomes a providence to man, and it is made easier for him to bear his sufferings and to be comforted in his sorrows.

Both of these conditions of mind, however, are considered virtues only when they are manifested in unusual intensity: humanity is a remarkably delicate fellow-feeling, greatness of soul a rare degree of self-command.

Humanity is the issue; therefore humanity must have planned the issue and secured it.

If this were to happen, though we might be the losers, humanity would be the gainer.

Humanity is a pigsty, where liars, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate; it has been so since the great Jew conceived it, and it will be so till the end.

In our time humanity is a bazaar of ideas, unsorted and thrown together in a heap, with hastily constructed partitions between them, so that brothers are separated from brothers, and thrown in with strangers.

Humanity is solidaire.

Humanity then, in Browning's view, is not a collection of individuals, separate and often antagonistic, but one whole.

What the collegesteaching humanities by examples which may be special, but which must be typical and pregnantshould at least try to give us, is a general sense of what, under various disguises, superiority has always signified and may still signify.

Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death.

Humanity was his hobby.

Humanity must always be the end.

But humanity is euer willinger to loue then hate: curtesie much forwarder to commend then dispraise: clemency infinitely proner to absolue then to condemn.

For it should be noted that a reasonable humanity is a mighty force for subduing and correcting a noble soul.

42 Metaphors for  humanity