Humankind Quotes
73 quotations about Humankind
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
All people are a single nation.
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Authors on Humankind
Henry Brooks Adams
Konrad Adenauer
Roy Chapman Andrews
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
R. M. Baumgardy
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
Eileen Caddy
Italo Calvino
Elias Canetti
Thomas Carlyle
Miguel De Cervantes
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
Dante Alighieri
Carl Van Doren
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson