Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

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

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

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.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Caddy, Eileen

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