Motivational Quotes

Humankind

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

- Pegler, Westbrook

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Foucault, Michel

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

Socrates

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.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Adenauer, Konrad

10.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Kant, Immanuel

15.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Sumner, Charles

17.

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

Johnson

19.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Adam

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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

28.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

31.

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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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Blake, William

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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

34.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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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'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

39.

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

40.

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

Sumner, Charles

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

43.

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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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.

45.

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

46.

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

48.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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?