Bartolomé de las Casas: Quotes about men

Bartolomé de las Casas was Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on men.

Bartolomé de las Casas: 42 quotes 16 likes

“Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 39

Love , Men , Christ

“Men, from their early years, are reared in the midst of goods of the body and senses, the source of corrupt behavior, and, because they constantly deal with them, know them better. But spiritual things, the goods of reason, and things intellectual, which are far removed from the senses, they do not know as well. Because they understand and are always dealing with material things, but spiritual things are not so readily evident, it happens that men, for the most part, are plunged into sinful conduct.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 37

Men , Behavior , Understanding , Sense

“We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifty million.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

Women , Men , Children , Truth