quotations about humanity
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime