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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
-Proverb
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
-Henry Adams
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
-Joseph Addison
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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.
-Kingsley Amis
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Man is an ape with possibilities.
-Roy Chapman Andrews
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
-Marcus Antonius
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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Man is by nature a political animal.
-Aristotle
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
-Francis Bacon
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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
-James Baldwin
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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
-Dave Barry
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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood.
-Luigi Barzini
The Italians, 1964
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.
-Jean Baudrillard
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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
-R. M. Baumgardy
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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
-Charles Austin Beard
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5
-Bible
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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
-William Blake
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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
-William Blake
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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.
-Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
-Andre Breton
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
-Warren Buffett
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Books about Humanity
