Mark Twain Humanity Quotations

The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

It is your human environment that makes climate

To eat is human, to digest, divine

We are all alike, on the inside.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.