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

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

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

Murdoch, Iris

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Terence

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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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There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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

Doren, Carl Van

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The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Sumner, Charles

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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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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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.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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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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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

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

Reagan, Ronald