Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

11.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

12.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

France, Anatole

15.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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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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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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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

Foucault, Michel

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bible

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

45.

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.

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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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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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

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

Sumner, Charles