Quotes about humankind

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Adams, Henry Brooks on humankind
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"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Adenauer, Konrad on humankind
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"Man is an ape with possibilities."

Andrews, Roy Chapman on humankind   

"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 on humankind   

"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 on humankind   

"Either a beast or a god."

Aristotle on humankind
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

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

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

Barry, Dave on humankind
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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 on humankind   

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

Baumgardy, R. M. on humankind   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on humankind   

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

Bible on humankind   

"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 on humankind
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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 on humankind   

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

Butler, Samuel on humankind   

"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."

Byron, Lord on humankind   

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

Caddy, Eileen on humankind
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"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."

Calvino, Italo on humankind   

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

Canetti, Elias on humankind   

"Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature."

Carlyle, Thomas on humankind   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on humankind   

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on humankind
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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 on humankind
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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 on humankind
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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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 on humankind   

"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on humankind
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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 on humankind   

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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"Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident."

Dahlberg, Edward on humankind   

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

Dante Alighieri on humankind
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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 on humankind   

"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 on humankind   

"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."

Donne, John on humankind   

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

Doren, Carl Van on humankind