Humankind Quotes

364 Humankind quotes by 278 unique authors

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do… — Julia Cameron
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race,… — Benazir Bhutto
When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include… — Eugene Odum
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place. — D. H. Lawrence
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish… — Ridgely Torrence
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs… — Dalai Lama
The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is… — Harry S. Truman
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be… — Marcus Aurelius
I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in… — Herbert Hoover
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. — Mihai Eminescu
The proper study of mankind is woman. — Henry Adams
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty… — D. H. Lawrence
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow… — R. Buckminster Fuller
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. — Mark Twain
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid… — John Updike
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters… — Virginia Woolf
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. — Thomas Carlyle
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow

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