Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Gide, Andre

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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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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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

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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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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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Socrates

31.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Terence

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Adam

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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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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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