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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Foucault, Michel

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

11.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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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

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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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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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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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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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

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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

28.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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

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

Doren, Carl Van

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Lessing, Doris

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If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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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