Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Sumner, Charles

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

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

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

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fuller, Buckminster

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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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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

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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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

Socrates

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Smith, Adam

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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