 | "So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
- Andre Gide
. |
| "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
- Bertrand Russell
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| "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
- Blaise Pascal
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| "The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
- Homer
, The Iliad. |
| "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
- Joseph Baretti
, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. |
| "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
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| "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
- Mark Twain
, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. |
| "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
- Mark Twain
, Following the Equator (1897). |
| "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."
- Oscar Wilde
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| "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
- Samuel Butler
. |