Humankind Quotes

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

  Plotinus

  Beast, Midway, Mankind

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• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• "The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Kindness, Heart

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• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  Morris Dees

  Unique, Our World, Color

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Fate, Today, Problem

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• When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Powerful, Hate

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.94, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

  Wangari Maathai

  Teamwork, Helping Others, Men

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• Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

  Bernard Lown

  Reality, Nuclear, Bombs

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• When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

  Georges Bernanos

  Laughter, Book, Thinking

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Memories, War, Fate

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• The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Spirituality

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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

  Dennis Banks

  Believe, Native American, People

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• Man is an ape with possibilities.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Men, Humanity, Apes

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• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Country, Stars, Space

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• And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

  Albert Maltz

  Inspiring, Men, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  Vernor Vinge

  Problem, Passing, Stage

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• Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Firsts, Common, Cry

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