Top 100 Quotes About Mankind Humanity
#3. We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
Luc De Clapiers
#6. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]
David Foster Wallace
#7. Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.
The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.
John N. Gray
#9. Man must be free or he will not survive.
John Kramer
#10. Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this pathetic faith, without it mankind would not have the ever-renascent strength to go on living.
Emile Zola
#11. I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
Howie Mandel
#14. What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose
a god who simply is.
Stanislaw Lem
#15. It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
T.H. White
#23. They know how to eat, shit, drive their cars, do menial work, watch television and produce equally stupid spawns of themselves; what the hell are they doing to help mankind?
Brad McKinniss
#24. Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.
Muhammad
#27. I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Joseph Conrad
#28. Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly
#37. In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Sigmund Freud
#38. If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Jonathan Swift
#39. The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible ( ... ) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.
Isaac Asimov
#42. Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
Stefan Emunds
#43. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#45. therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision.
Anton Chekhov
#46. Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.
Suzy Kassem
#47. I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#48. Maybe it's time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can't be explained.
Jennifer Ott
#51. Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
K.R. Royal
#52. Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
Raheel Farooq
#54. How will it end? ... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin ...
Carl H. Claudy
#57. The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Li Ka-shing
#59. If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing
John F. Kennedy
#60. There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
Joseph Addison
#61. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.
William Hazlitt
#63. Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
K. Hari Kumar
#64. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
Stanislaw Lem
#65. Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity
Sunday Adelaja
#66. We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William Shakespeare
#67. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#69. Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.
Sigmund Freud
#72. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
H. Rider Haggard
#73. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.
H.G.Wells
#74. If hope is the dream of mankind awake ... then let's give all of humanity much to dream of!
Timothy Pina
#75. We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. I am ... only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.
- Danny Rollings
James Fox
#77. I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
Albert Schweitzer
#82. Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#83. Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
Stefan Emunds
#84. 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Susan Sontag
#85. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#86. Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
Alex Steffen
#87. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
#89. Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity.
Alex Morritt
#90. There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
#91. More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Konrad Lorenz
#92. For the attainment of blessedness, a law has been given to humanity which it should fulfill. The law is that of the union of mankind.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Wislawa Szymborska
#94. One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with a capital S, and that Self is the Self within all mankind.
Laurence G. Boldt
#95. I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw ...
Alex Haley
#96. If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.
Abhijit Naskar
#97. Same eyes, different perception.
Same ears, different judgement.
Same hands, different skills.
Same feet, different destinations.
Same minds, different reasoning.
Same hearts, different feelings.
Same souls, different actions.
Same lives, different experiences.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Albert Einstein
#99. If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.
Immanuel Kant
#100. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.
Stefan Emunds
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