Nature of man Quotes · Page 187

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

— Marco Bizzarri

Humanity inspires me, people inspire me, I've always been a people person, and I love people.

— Tasha Smith

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

— Napoleon Hill

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

— Richard Bach

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

“Humanity, I’m sure I do not have to tell Your Grace, is a strange animal.”

— Kady Cross

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

— James Hillman

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one…

— Hugh Kingsmill

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

“...[T]o restrain [evil men] by their sense of humanity is the same as to stop a runaway horse with a bridle of…

— Walter Scott

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too.…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll…

— Abhijit Naskar

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

— Mark Lynas

I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in…

— Aeriel Miranda

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They…

— George Orwell

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here…

— Frederic Bastiat

“What will be lost, and what saved, of our civilization probably lies beyond our powers to decide. No human group has ever…

— Thomas Cahill

Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more…

— Carlos Barrios

It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to…

— Matt Ridley

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find…

— Robert Owen

“Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially,…

— Jasper Fforde

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral…

— James Anthony Froude

“I do battle for the creation of a human world - that ism a world of reciprocal recognition.”

— Frantz Fanon

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

— William Hazlitt

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

— Eileen Wilks

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

— Che Guevara

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

— Khalil Gibran

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

— Mohsin Hamid

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity…

— Georg Brandes

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

— Richard Wagner

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

— Zhu Zhu

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To All That Work So Hard To Enrich Lives And Help Make A Better Humanity, I Have Just One Word To You...NAMASTE!”

— Timothy Pina

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

— Henrik Ibsen

“Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

— William Blake