Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

- Kent, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Sumner, Charles

10.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Foucault, Michel

14.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

15.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

16.

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

Terence

17.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

18.

Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

19.

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

Robert, Fulghum

20.

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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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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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Barry, Dave

27.

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 a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

30.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

34.

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

35.

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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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.

37.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

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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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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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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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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 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.

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

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