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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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.)

13.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Adam

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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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

Twain, Mark

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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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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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

49.

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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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