Motivational Quotes

Humankind

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Humankind

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Ruskin, John

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

Fischer, Ernst

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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Thurber, James

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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Dahlberg, Edward

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.