Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Barry, Dave

Best Quotes about Humankind

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Rogers, Will

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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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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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

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

Bible

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

Smith, Adam

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Terence

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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.

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich