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| Den verkliga tragedin, den stora katastrofen, är mänsklighetens fortsatta existens. | Louis Wolfson |
| Det är ett litet steg för människan och ett jättekliv för mänskligheten. | Neil Armstrong (1930-) |
| En individualist är en person som betalar skatten med ett leende. | Al Diamond |
| I sin strävan uppåt trampar människan ihjäl miljontals för att några tusen ska kunna kliva på deras kroppar. | Clara Lucas Balfour |
| Jag har lagt märke till att det katter mest uppskattar hos människan inte är hennes förmåga att tillhandahålla föda, något som de tar för givet, utan hennes underhållningsvärde. | Geoffrey Household (1900-) |
| Människan frodas där änglar skulle dö i extas och grisar av avsmak. | Kenneth Rexroth (1905-) |
| Människan är blott ett hittebarn i kosmos, övergiven av de krafter som skapade henne. | Carl Becker |
| Mänskligheten är på väg, jorden lämnas bakom. | David Ehrenfeld |
| Vi lever på en fridfull ö av okunnighet mitt ute på evighetens svarta hav och det var aldrig meningen att vi skulle färdas särskilt långt. | H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937) |
| Världen är underbar, men har en sjukdom kallad människan. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. | Alexander Crummell |
| If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. | Andreas Capellanus |
| One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. | Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) |
| What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community | Arthur Dobrin |
| The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. | Bernard Avishai |
| Men are only as loyal as their options. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run. | Branch Rickey (1881-1965) |
| As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man | Charles Sumner (1811-1874) |
| Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him | Ernest A. Jones |
| Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| We are all sailors on the spaceship Earth. | Frank Braynard |
| Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character. | George D. Boardman |
| All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears | Gerald Massey |
| A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth | Gerald Massey |
| Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? | Gregory Clark |
| Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed | Henry MacKenzie |
| Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say | Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1866) |
| Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives | Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) |
| Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order. | Holly Brubach |
| I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am | James Boswell (1740-1795) |
| Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases | James Bryant Conant |
| It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. | James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) |
| I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another | Jane Porter |
| That's not serious; it's just human. | Jerry Kopke |
| Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. | John Comenius |
| The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. | John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) |
| The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human | John Naisbitt |
| Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection | John Powell (1920-) |
| Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society | John Ralston Saul |
| The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. | Josephine Hart |
| We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| And mankind is naught but a single nation | Hadith |
| Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. | Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-) |
| If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. | Lloyd C. Douglas (1877-) |
| For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life. | Mary Ashton Livermore (1820-1905) |
| One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. | Maureen Dowd (1952-) |
| The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar | Morris Leopold Ernst |
| You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. | Morris West |
| If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. | Nelson DeMille (1943-) |
| That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are. | Neve Campbell (1973-) |
| Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment | Owen Felltham |
| It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. | Paul Strand (1890-1976) |
| It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever | Rick Bode |
| Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence | Robert Inman |
| Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. | H. Ross Perot (1930-) |
| Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. | Samuel Adams (1722-1803) |
| In the dark all men were the same color. In the dark our fellow man was seen more clearly than in the normal light of a New York night. | Stephen P. Kennedy |
| Humanity is the sin of God | Theodore Parker |
| One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. | William Allen White (1868-1944) |
| The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature | Adam Smith (1723-1790) |
| To be human means to feel inferior. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| You see, but you do not observe | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. | Billie Holiday (1915-1959) |
| A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Man cannot live by incompetence alone. | Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975) |
| Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life. | Connie Mack (1862-) |
| Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
| A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. | Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) |
| Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions | Elayne Boosler (1952-) |
| Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| After all, there is but one race: humanity | George Moore (1873-1958) |
| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| Our true nationality is mankind. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. | Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (1939-) |
| Any man [Albert Einstein] whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show | Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) |
| If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. | Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) |
| One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it. | Jason Zebehazy |
| Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear | John Selden (1584-1654) |
| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace | Marianne Williamson (1952-) |
| Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating tha | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing | Marilyn French (1929-) |
| People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment... | Miyamoto Musashi |
| God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed | Muslih-uddin Sadi |
| There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience. | Nora Ephron (1941-) |
| To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| When it is darkest, men see the stars. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect | Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) |
| Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence | Storm Jameson (1891-) |
| Human kind cannot bear much reality. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi | Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
| Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives | Walter J. Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better | William Wycherley (1640-1716) |
| If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. | William Allen White (1868-1944) |
| Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| To err is human - but it feels divine | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community | Arthur Dobrin |
| To eat is human, to digest, divine | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| Human kind cannot bear much reality. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." | H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937) |
| When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. | Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| To be human means to feel inferior. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| We all boil at different degrees | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence | Robert Inman |
| The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. | Bernard Edmonds |
| The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| When it is darkest, men see the stars. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Men are born equal but they are also born different | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. | Jimmy Carter (1924-2002) |
| Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Man is the cruelest animal. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. | Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-) |
| Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| Humans are almost always lonely. | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. | Harry Chapin (1942-1981) |
| We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. | Henry Beston |
| Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order. | Holly Brubach |
| When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box | Italian Proverb |
| Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human | John Naisbitt |
| May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In the new laws, may torture not be allowed.(Castillian Spanish: Que la esclavitud se proscriba para siempre y lo mismo la distinción de castas, quedando todos iguales, y sólo distinguirá a un americano de otro el vicio y la virtud…Que en la nueva legislación no se admita la tortura.) | Jose Maria Morelos y Pavón |
| One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| People ask me all the time, 'What are you, a Democrat or a Republican? A Catholic or a Muslim...' What am I? I am none of these. I belong to nothing but the human race. Why isn't that ever enough? | Kate Miller |
| It posed the question posed by all such stone piles: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread? | Lucy Parsons |
| To err is human, but is feels divine. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.' | Margery Williams |
| We are all alike on the inside | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| It is your human environment that makes climate | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish. | Thomas Kempis |
| In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| There's nothing funnier than the human animal. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Den verkliga tragedin, den stora katastrofen, är mänsklighetens fortsatta existens. | Louis Wolfson |
| Det är ett litet steg för människan och ett jättekliv för mänskligheten. | Neil Armstrong (1930-) |
| En individualist är en person som betalar skatten med ett leende. | Al Diamond |
| I sin strävan uppåt trampar människan ihjäl miljontals för att några tusen ska kunna kliva på deras kroppar. | Clara Lucas Balfour |
| Jag har lagt märke till att det katter mest uppskattar hos människan inte är hennes förmåga att tillhandahålla föda, något som de tar för givet, utan hennes underhållningsvärde. | Geoffrey Household (1900-) |
| Människan frodas där änglar skulle dö i extas och grisar av avsmak. | Kenneth Rexroth (1905-) |
| Människan är blott ett hittebarn i kosmos, övergiven av de krafter som skapade henne. | Carl Becker |
| Mänskligheten är på väg, jorden lämnas bakom. | David Ehrenfeld |
| Vi lever på en fridfull ö av okunnighet mitt ute på evighetens svarta hav och det var aldrig meningen att vi skulle färdas särskilt långt. | H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937) |
| Världen är underbar, men har en sjukdom kallad människan. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. | Alexander Crummell |
| If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. | Andreas Capellanus |
| One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. | Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) |
| What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community | Arthur Dobrin |
| The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. | Bernard Avishai |