Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about 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

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

Doren, Carl Van

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

10.

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

Barry, Dave

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

12.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

13.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Marshall, Thurgood

15.

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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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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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Blake, William

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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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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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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

21.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

28.

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

Lessing, Doris

29.

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

Caddy, Eileen

30.

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

Kant, Immanuel

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

35.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

40.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

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

Terence

48.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sumner, Charles