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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
, leader
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
, philosopher
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
, author
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
, politician
Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
, painter
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
, writer
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
, businessman
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
, novelist
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.
, novelist
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
, scientist
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
, author
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
, comedian
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
, philosopher
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
, philosopher
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
, poet
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
, author
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
, judge
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
, philosopher
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
, author
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
, clergyman
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
, poet
What a beautiful world we're destroying.
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
, physicist
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
, politician
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
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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.
, writer
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
, president
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
, novelist
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
, author
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
, novelist
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
, psychologist
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
, president
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
, writer
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
, writer
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
, dramatist
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
, leader
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
, scientist
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
, businessman
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
, politician
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
, poet
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
, writer
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
, physicist
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
, novelist
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
, author
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
, author
...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
, writer
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
, actor
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
, economist
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
, writer
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
, politician
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
, author
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
, poet
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
, author
The proper study of mankind is woman.
, historian
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
, poet
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
, novelist
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
, politician
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
, novelist
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
, activist
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
, novelist
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
, writer
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
, writer
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
, author
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
, dramatist
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
, dramatist
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
, novelist
There is a great deal of human nature in people.
, author
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
, dramatist
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
, dramatist
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
, clergyman
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
, revolutionary
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
, novelist
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
, philosopher
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
, poet
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
, physicist
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
, statesman
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
, leader
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
, writer
Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
, comedian
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
, writer
Man is by nature a political animal.
, philosopher
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
, celebrity
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
, author
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
, economist
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
, leader
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
, writer
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
, philosopher
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.
, president
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
, leader
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
, poet
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
, scientist
I am a man: nothing human is foreign to me.
, poet
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
, writer
Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
, philosopher
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
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All people are a single nation.
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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
, president
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
, entertainer
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
, author
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
, writer
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
, scientist
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
, writer
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
, scientist
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
, monk
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
, writer
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
, scientist
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
, writer
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
, president
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
, scientist
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
, novelist
I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.
, musician
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
, novelist
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
, philosopher
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
, journalist
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
, journalist
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
, philosopher
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
, editor
Man lies down and does not rise until the heavens are no more. They will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.
, philosopher
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
, psychologist
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
, writer
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
, writer
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
, philosopher
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
, economist
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
, writer
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
, activist
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
, philosopher
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
, writer
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
, novelist
Man is a useless passion.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.
, economist
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
, author
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
, philosopher
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
, philosopher
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
, author
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
, critic
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
, statesman
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
, actor
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