Quotations About Humankind


The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. 
Lemuel K. Washburn
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. 
Anton Chekhov
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.  
George Bernard Shaw

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.  
Martin H. Fischer

Monkeys are superior to men in this:  When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.  
Malcolm de Chazal
Why was man created on the last day?  So that he can be told, when pride possesses him:  God created the gnat before thee.  
The Talmud
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.  
Adlai Stevenson
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.  
Joseph Conrad
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?  
Pierre Troubetzkoy

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.  
Mignon McLaughlin
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.  
Henry Miller
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. 
Albert Camus
That's it!  When you come to know men, that's how they are:  too sensitive in the wrong place.  
D.H. Lawrence

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.  
Robert Brault
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.  
Lonzo Idolswine
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.  
Mignon McLaughlin
When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis. 
Martin H. Fischer






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