Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

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

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Smith, Adam

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Smith, Adam

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

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

Bible

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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

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

Doren, Carl Van

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Robert, Fulghum

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George