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

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

Robert, Fulghum

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

Sumner, Charles

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

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

Holmes, John Andrew

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Rogers, Will

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Smith, Adam

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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

24.

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

Reagan, Ronald

25.

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

Terence

33.

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Dante Alighieri

49.

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

Adenauer, Konrad