Humankind Quotes
73 quotations about Humankind
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Man is a useless passion.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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