Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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.

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Barry, Dave

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Butler, Samuel

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

10.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

11.

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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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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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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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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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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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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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

33.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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

38.

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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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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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

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Johnson

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo