Humankind Quotes
364 quotes by 278 authors
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
— Alexander Pope
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
— Plotinus
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The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
— John F. Kennedy
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and…
— Max Lerner
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
— Robert Kennedy
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
— Michel de Montaigne
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
— Aldous Huxley
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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
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The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's…
— George Santayana
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As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
— Joseph Addison
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Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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…
— John Donne
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
— Saadi
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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
— Saul Bellow
Who Wrote These Humankind Quotes
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