Quotes on mankind
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
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Gil Stern Quotes
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Abraham Meyerson Quotes
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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Nan Fairbrother Quotes
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
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Hungarian Proverb Quotes
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Voltaire Quotes
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Evolution is individual - devolution is collective.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
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Arthur Young Quotes
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Albert Camus Quotes
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah didn't miss the boat.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Evolution: that last step was a doozy!
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Man is nature's sole mistake.
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W.S. Gilbert Quotes
Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
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Alexander Hamilton Quotes
Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
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Yugoslav Proverb Quotes
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day.
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Author Unknown Quotes
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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Charles Darwin Quotes
Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.
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W.R. Koehler Quotes
What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
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Bias of Priene Quotes
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature.
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Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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Mariane Moore Quotes
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
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David Ormsby Gore Quotes
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.
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Albert Camus Quotes
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant [is] alone enough to upset Darwin.
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Henry Adams Quotes
A simple and irrefutable argument to knock creationism on its ass: (1) Humans are a mistake - subproof: opposable thumbs and enlarged brain capacity are the combined number one factor in the increasingly speedy destruction of planet Earth. (2) God doesn't make mistakes. (3) Therefore, God couldn't have created people.
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Cassus Garrulitas Quotes
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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Joseph Baretti Quotes
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.
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Lonzo Idolswine Quotes
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
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Sydney Smith Quotes
If mankind recognizes that war is impossible, that all national rivalries are foolish, if they get together any kind of an extension of detente, then we may pull out of it all the better for it.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Joseph Conrad Quotes
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
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Thomas Huxley Quotes
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
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Robert Zend Quotes
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Aeschylus Quotes
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.
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Mark Goulston Quotes
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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Carl Linnaeus Quotes
The human race is governed by its imagination.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Plato Quotes
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Woody Allen Quotes