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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
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

2.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Mencken, H. L.

3.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Sarraute, Nathalie

8.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Rolf, Ida P.

9.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Sumner, Charles

10.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
Bible

11.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Mises, Ludwig Von

12.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Churchill, Winston

16.
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

17.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Schlegel, Friedrich

18.
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.

19.
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.

20.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

22.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Quinet, Edgar

23.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Twain, Mark

24.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Kant, Immanuel

26.
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

27.
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
Moore, George

28.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Adenauer, Konrad

29.
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

30.
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

31.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Sumner, Charles

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Man is a useless passion.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Foucault, Michel

38.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Doren, Carl Van

39.
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

40.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Temple, Sir William

41.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Wilde, Oscar

42.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Pegler, Westbrook

43.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Murdoch, Iris

44.
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Hoffer, Eric

45.
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
Reagan, Ronald

46.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Smith, Adam

47.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Landor, Walter Savage

48.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Casals, Pablo

49.
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Pope, Alexander

50.
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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