Humankind Quotes

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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"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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The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.

Harry S. Truman

Father, Community, Brotherhood

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In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Dalai Lama

Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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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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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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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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So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

Joseph Rotblat

War, Thinking, Long

Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

Dalai Lama

Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Kindness, Reality, Atheism

Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

Life, Single, Peace

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When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

Robert Cailliau

Recovery, Data, Humanity

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Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Imagination, Jehovah, Rich

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I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Todd Barry

Sports, Love And Respect

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Theodore Bikel

Art, Past, Heirlooms

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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

Sylvia Earle

Ocean, Mean, Sea

Sylvia A. Earle (2009). “The World Is Blue”, p.257, National Geographic Books

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Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

Anime, Law, Giving

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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

Orson Scott Card

Humanity, Needs, Tools

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

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Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

Leonardo Boff

Mean, Technology, Order

Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

Albert Einstein

Country, Inspiration, People

"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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