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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert, Fulghum

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

Smith, Adam

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Smith, Adam

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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

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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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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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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

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Sumner, Charles

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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

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Einstein, Albert

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