Fellow Man Quotes

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.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

… 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

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.

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

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.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.

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.

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.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

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.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

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

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

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

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.

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.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.