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Quotes about humankind
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. (Adams Douglas)
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. (Adams Douglas)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Adams Douglas)
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale. (Adams Douglas)
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. (Adams Douglas)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Adams Douglas)
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. (Adams Douglas)
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. (Adams Douglas)
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Adams Douglas)
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. (Adams Douglas)
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts. (Adams Douglas)
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. (Adams Douglas)
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. (Adams Douglas)
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. (Adams Douglas)
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous. (Adams Douglas)
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! (Adams Douglas)
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. (Adams Douglas)
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. (Adams Douglas)
God must love the common man, he made so many of them. (Adams Douglas)
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. (Adams Douglas)
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. (Adams Douglas)
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. (Adams Douglas)
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. (Adams Douglas)
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. (Adams Douglas)
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. (Adams Douglas)
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