Humanity Quotes

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it

Bertrand Russell

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Kurt Vonnegut

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Oscar Wilde

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Oscar Wilde

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Philipus A. Paracelsus

It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.http://www.zionsbest.com/pessimism.html

Gordon B. Hinckley

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5

Bible

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett

You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'I didn't realize it toilet paper.

Kurt Vonnegut

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

Terry Pratchett

It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.

Steve Maraboli

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare