Quotes about humankind

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on humankind   

"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

Schlegel, Friedrich on humankind   

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."

Schulz, Charles M. on humankind
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"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"

Shakespeare, William on humankind
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."

Shaw, George Bernard on humankind   

"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

Shaw, George Bernard on humankind   

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

Smith, Adam on humankind   

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

Smith, Adam on humankind   

"Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another."

Smith, Adam on humankind   

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

Socrates on humankind
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"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."

Steinbeck, John on humankind
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"Man is a substance clad in shadows."

Sterling, John on humankind   

"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on humankind   

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

Sumner, Charles on humankind   

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

Sumner, Charles on humankind   

"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 on humankind   

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

Terence on humankind   

"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."

Thurber, James on humankind   

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on humankind   

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"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

Truth, Sojourner on humankind
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"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously."

Twain, Mark on humankind   

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

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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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."

Unknown, Source on humankind   

"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."

Unknown, Source on humankind   

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

Unknown, Source on humankind   

"Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too."

Unknown, Source on humankind
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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 on humankind
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

Watts, Alan W. on humankind   

"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 on humankind   

"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."

Wells, H.G. on humankind   

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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."

Whitman, Walt on humankind   

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."

Williams, Tennessee on humankind   

"What a beautiful world we're destroying."

Dye, James on humankind   

"Man lies down and does not rise until the heavens are no more. They will not awake nor arise from their sleep."

Dye, James on humankind