Motivational Quotes

Humankind

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

- Moore, George

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

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.

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

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

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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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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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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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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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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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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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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates

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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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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

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Einstein, Albert

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Smith, Adam

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

33.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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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 am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.