Best Quotes about Humankind
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
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Williams, Tennessee
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Wilde, Oscar
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
France, Anatole
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Mencken, H. L.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Holmes, John Andrew
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
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
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Schlegel, Friedrich
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen
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
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Da Vinci, Leonardo
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
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
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
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.
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.
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
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Sterling, John
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Twain, Mark
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Mayhew, Dr Edward
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Sumner, Charles
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
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Rolf, Ida P.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Johnson
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Pegler, Westbrook
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Mead, Margaret
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
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
Man is a useless passion.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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.
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.
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
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
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Mises, Ludwig Von
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Caulfield, Holden
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
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
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
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
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Twain, Mark
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Hoffer, Eric
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
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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