best quotations about
Mankind |
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Quotations
 | If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 18 likes |
 | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 14 likes |
 | A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 13 likes |
 | In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 12 likes |
 | I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
| The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 8 likes |
 | Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 7 likes |
 | The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 7 likes |
 | The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 7 likes |
 | All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 6 likes |
 | It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 6 likes |
| The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
| We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 6 likes |
 | Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 6 likes |
 | If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ King Lear 5 likes |
 | I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 5 likes |
 | The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 4 likes |
| Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
| Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
 | Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 2 likes |
 | Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes |
 | What would happen to the world if we were human? — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
 | Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 2 likes |
| The French Revolution was the most important step for mankind since the advent of Jesus Christ. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 2 likes |
 | The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
 | It takes all kinds of people to make up a world. 2 likes |
 | The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. |
 | The four cornerstones of this world: bread, wine, fire, woman. |
 | The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. |
 | In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. |
 | For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. |
 | If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. |
 | Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. |
| Imagination, not intelligence, made us human. |
 | Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. |
 | Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. |
 | If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. |
 | Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. |
 | The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. |
 | The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. |
 | Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. |
Quotes in Verse
 | O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 5 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 8 likes |
 | Humanity is a disease of the earth. There are no humans on healthy planets. |
Ancient Greek
 | Most people are bad. Οι πλείστοι άνθρωποι κακοί. — Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 42 likes |
