Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Robert, Fulghum

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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 is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

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

Calvino, Italo

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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.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Smith, Adam

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Twain, Mark