Fellow Man Quotations

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men....

I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.

The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.

The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.