Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Shaw, George Bernard

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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

Barry, Dave

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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 being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bible

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

Terence

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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Socrates

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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

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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Adam

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

Foucault, Michel

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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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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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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