Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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.

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barry, Dave

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

Terence

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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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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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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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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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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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

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

Foucault, Michel

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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