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

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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

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

Twain, Mark

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Adam

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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

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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.

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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.

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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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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark