Humankind Quotes

I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

~ Carl Sagan

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

~ T.s. Eliot

Once again, he became outraged that humans—more specifically his dad—would rather invest in something pointless than the people right in front of them. Would Earth still suffer and need movements dedicated to its healing if humankind was rooted in reality?

~ Jesikah Sundin

When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you're taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world's broken people.

~ C. Joybell C.

What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human thinking - Surprising reforms, stunning success! The power that created in Muslims a ravenous appetite for knowledge sprung from the Quran.

~ B. Margoliouth

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

~ Idries Shah

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

~ Madelaine Standing

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

~ George Rivorie

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.

~ Germany Kent

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

~ Stephenie Meyer

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life.

~ Mika Waltari

Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

~ Silvia Hartmann

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

~ Madelaine Standing

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

~ Suzy Kassem

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

~ Sonya Hartnett

The motive of man is a mystery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May all humankind find the grace of goodwill.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

~ Robert Buettner

Language is a social energy, and our capacity for articulate speech is the key factor that makes us different from other species. We are not as fast as cheetahs – or even as horses. Nor are we as strong as bulls or as adaptable as bacteria. But our brains are equipped with the facility to produce and process speech, and we are capable of abstract thought. A bee may dance to show other bees the location of a source of food, a green monkey may deliver sophisticated vocal signals, and a sparrow may manage as many as thirteen different types of song, but an animal's system of communication has a limited repertoire; ours, on the other hand, is 'open', and its mechanisms permit a potentially infinite variety of utterances.

~ Henry Hitchings

But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?

~ Lawrence G. Taylor

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

~ William Shakespeare

We are the flowers that make up the Creator's vast and beautiful garden.

~ Suzy Kassem

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

~ George Bernard Shaw

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

~ George Eliot

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

~ Eric Chaisson

People always make choices, always take sides!

~ Deyth Banger

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

~ Richard North Patterson

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

~ John Jakes

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

~ Carroll Bryant

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

~ Brian L. Weiss

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately, humankind in general, are common traits of the Jewish intellectual. So too is a well-fortified atheism. Bohr ended with no religious belief and a dislike of all religions that claimed to base their teachings on revelations.

~ Finn Aaserud

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

~ Lame Deer

Everything existed at God’s command.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita