Humanity and Solidarity

Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy’s sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.

To each his suff’rings, all are men,

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Human kind

A man so various that he seemed to be

Nor is the people’s judgement always true:

But far more numerous was the herd of such

No man is an Island, entire of it self.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood,

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

It is an ancient Mariner,

Man’s inhumanity to man

A man’s a man for a’ that.

… Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,

I shall have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. Either instruct them, therefore, or endure them.