Quotes on mankind
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
Stern, Gil
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
McLaughlin, Mignon
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Fairbrother, Nan
We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.
Fischer, Martin H.
Evolution is individual - devolution is collective.
Fischer, Martin H.
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Einstein, Albert
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah didn't miss the boat.
Twain, Mark
Evolution: that last step was a doozy!
Alauda, Astrid
Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
Proverb, Yugoslav
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.
Thoreau, Henry David
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.
Darwin, Charles
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.
Fischer, Martin H.
The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.
Koehler, W.R.
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.
Gore, David Ormsby
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Porchia, Antonio
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.
Camus, Albert
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant [is] alone enough to upset Darwin.
Adams, Henry
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.
Garrulitas, Cassus
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
Huxley, Thomas
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Aeschylus
Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.
Goulston, Mark
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.
Allen, Woody