Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

10.

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

Sumner, Charles

11.

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

12.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

13.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

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

15.

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

Robert, Fulghum

16.

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

Terence

17.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

18.

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

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Sumner, Charles

22.

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

Barry, Dave

23.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

29.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Smith, Adam

32.

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

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

40.

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

Caddy, Eileen

41.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Johnson

43.

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

45.

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

46.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

Bible

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.