Mankind Quotes

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger.

What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them.

People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breath only, not vertically nor in depth.

It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

One man with courage makes a majority.