Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
—Henri Frederic Amiel
Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I’m human and stupid, too.
—Justina Chen in Return to Me
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.
—Carl Jung
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
—Mother Teresa
There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
—Rigoberta Menchú
I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
—Mahatma Gandhi
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.
—Elizabeth S. Eiler
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
—Gary Steiner
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.
—Barbara Woodhouse
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
—H. L. Mencken
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
—Douglas Adams
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
—Don Marquis
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
—Samuel Johnson
I’m human and every human makes mistakes. It’s just up to the person who made that mistake to let it rule their lives or put it behind them and go on.
—Amanda Heath in This Beautiful Thing
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
—Joseph Conrad