Mankind quotations

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◆ I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

- Primo Levi99

◆ I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

- John Quincy Adams99

◆ The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

- Rumi99

◆ The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

- Jack London99

◆ Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

- R. Buckminster Fuller99

◆ The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

- H.P. Lovecraft99

◆ On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.

- Hajime Isayama99

◆ When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

- Stephen Crane99

◆ A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

- Guy de Maupassant99

◆ As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

- Gustave Flaubert99

◆ Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

- Thomas More99

◆ All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuuel Kant99

◆ God gave man the challenge of raw materials not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation

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