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Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -- T. S. Eliot
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
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. -- Theodore Bikel
Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. -- Annie Lennox
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
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
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
Humankind cannot stand reality. -- T. S. Eliot
Humankind above all is lazy. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Humankind is the greatest resources. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Humankind can't stand too much reality. -- T. S. Eliot
Humankind is getting more and more connected. -- Hubert Burda
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection. -- William Boyd
Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change. -- Robert Jordan
Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. -- Sholem Asch
Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world. -- Jonathon Porritt
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones. -- Jean Paul
Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever. -- Jim Crace
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. -- Joel Garreau
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. -- Confucius
Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government. -- Albert Einstein
of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish. -- Erica Jong
Christmas is a celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together as sacred family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. -- Saul Bellow
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood. -- Jonathan Balcombe
Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. -- Anton Chekhov
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff. -- Edward Abbey
Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind. It is within the reach of every heart and hand. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012) -- Nigel Hey
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin. -- Paul Goodman
Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will. -- Brian L. Weiss
Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise -- Howard Thurman
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can -- Margaret Beckett
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
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it. -- Al Gore
Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so. -- Marlo Morgan
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us. -- Sonya Hartnett
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Our true nationality is mankind. -- H. G. Wells
The proper study of mankind is woman. -- Henry Adams
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -- Plotinus
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. -- Lewis Gordon
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. -- Spike Lee
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. -- Martin Amis
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. -- Todd Barry
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages. -- Kailash Satyarthi
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -- Charles Darwin
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. -- Wangari Maathai
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
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. -- Daisaku Ikeda
There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. -- Bill Nye
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
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. -- Vanna Bonta
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
Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10. -- Bill Nye
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. -- Joseph Beuys
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
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
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives. -- Flea
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing? -- Marcy Kaptur
There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
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
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth. -- Ban Ki-moon
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized. -- Albert Einstein
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law. -- Ban Ki-moon
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony. -- Eric Whitacre
I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live. -- Herbert Hoover
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
God bless humankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May the God richly bless humankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The glory of God is humankind fully alive. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind. -- Nichiren
Be at peace with yourself and with all humankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind? -- Joyce Carol Oates
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. -- Bill Nye
...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own. -- Stephenie Meyer
The greatest force of humankind is the power of love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind. -- John Patrick Hickey
Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind. -- Raymond Tallis
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species. -- Buzz Aldrin
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. -- Gerald Hausman
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind. -- Hippocrates
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me. -- Helen Exley
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God. -- Sholem Asch
Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. -- Qiu Miaojin
The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
May God deliver humankind from power of darkness into the wonderful light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind. -- Bernard Lown
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. -- Walter Scott
Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing in the history of humankind has been disrespected as much as nature. -- M.F. Moonzajer
We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness. -- Amani
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. -- Lewis Gordon
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness. -- Ken Wilber
But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible. -- Radwa Ashour
All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind. -- Veronica Roth
I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind. -- Andrew Simms
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own. -- Stephenie Meyer
The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind. -- Josei Toda
It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening. -- J.D. Masterson
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. -- Plutarch
Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind. -- Barack Obama
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. -- Jonathan Swift

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