Motivational Quotes

Humankind

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Steinbeck, John

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Twain, Mark

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Reik, Theodor

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Fuller, Buckminster

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

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

28.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.