Mankind Quotes

“The depravity of man's heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they're trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“There is only one class of men, the privileged class.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.”
― H.G. Wells, The World Set Free

“Incurable diseases will eventually
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

“The Hitler tyranny was doomed. Here, then, we might pause in thankfulness and take hope, not only for victory on all fronts and in all three elements, but also for a safe and happy future for tormented mankind.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
― Fernand Leger

“Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so full of wealth and glory. Can’t every gang become a club? and every club an assembly? an assembly, a convention? a convention, a senate? and isn’t a senate meant to rule? And what senate ever ruled without a man to rule it? And what did it all require? – Daring! – Aha! Well said! – What! is that all it takes? – Yes, all! The ones who have arrived say so. – Then courage, numskulls, give tongue and run for it! – That’s how it’s done”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

“Man is afraid of death because he loves life.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.”
― Remy de Gourmont, The Angels of Perversity

“In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden,
Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.
He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.”
― Toba Beta

“No veils, no aliases. No duty, no blame. These green woods are without thought, nameless are its denizens. They lead into a waking dream. A dream with nothing to dream. Nothing to conjure nor relate. No effort to pursue nor resist. To sleep among root and rock… Why harbour identity where there is none? What good governs here where you are nothing? Your recitals without audience, your words without paper. The clanless hermit conceives of his own visage twisted in the shady stream. He carves not hideous figures and faces from the kindling but burns it. He dances not with a head of sprig to impress the elves. A sage must emulate nature from which morality is neutered. Ethics are chaste fodder for undying pyres. That ongoing tumult beyond the forest’s edge shall be yours to lick up and knock over again and again if you so choose… Mankind invents and implies. The crowd accepts or denies. People are always begging pity or scorn from your kind.”
― Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies

“O trabalho do homem é efémero e esvai-se como a espuma do mar... Sim, é isto mesmo. Neste planeta, o homem domesticou os animais úteis e destruiu os nocivos. Desbravou a terra, desembaraçou-a da vegetação selvática. Depois, um dia, desaparece, e a onda da vida primitiva reflui sobre ele, varrendo a obra humana.”
― Jack London

“I earn my living
teaching about the human condition, a composite
of violence, vengeance, and theft,
ingenuity, too, and forms of love unique
to men and women, the only species
that knows, consciously, what others of its kind
thought and did thousands of years before—
stories, myths, histories, philosophies,
all mirrors and constellations
showing humanity to itself,
none of which
will ensure our survival.”
― Hayan Charara, These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems

“The people are a nation without nationality.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Mankind strives with almost infinite energy to build something that will not last infinitely! First make yourself infinite, then try to build something that can last infinitely!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“দুর্যোগ আর দুঃসময়ের দুটো রূপ আছে। একটা রূপ আমাদের সন্ত্রস্ত করে, অন্যটা একধরনের বিচিত্র আনন্দের জন্ম দেয়। মানুষ যতই বলুক, সে শুধুমাত্র শান্তির পূজারী নয়। তাহলে আদিম যুগ থেকে মানবসভ্যতা একটুও অগ্রসর হত না। আরামে গাছের ছায়ায় শুয়ে গান গেয়ে দিন কাটানোর সুযোগ ছেড়ে মানুষ চিরকাল বেরিয়ে পড়েছে অজানার হাতছানিতে। প্রায়ান্ধকার বনের মধ্যে দাঁড়িয়ে আমারও গা-ছমছম করা অনুভূতি আর আনন্দ একসঙ্গে হল।”
― Taradas Bandyopadhyay, তারানাথ তান্ত্রিক সমগ্র

“He lived in an era when mankind’s gifts were bent to unspeakable aims.”
― Guy Haley

“Imaginative humans came together to hunt, farm, trade, and build incrementally sophisticated tools for transportation, communication, productivity, and convenience. ... Tribes and villages became kingdoms and empires, only to later dissolve into the cities and countries of a global civilization. ... Today, we live in concrete jungles, store fruit in fridges, cook oats with microwaves, and carry smartphones in our pockets. Electricity lights up our world, while the energy for it comes from increasingly sustainable sources. Global warming has finally convinced us to grow our food and fuel our activities in ways that do not pollute the planet, exhaust ecosystems, or exploit our fellow animals. We now seek to preserve the environmental stability of the last 10,000 years, during which our species transformed from a few million wandering foragers to nearly ten billion technological titans. Today, we are masters of science, exploring everything from the cosmic to the quantum. We discuss Einstein’s gravity and spacetime relativity, while decoding the molecular mysteries of life and longevity. We fling satellites into orbit, hook computers up to an internet, and seed our society with intelligent programs and robots.”
― Ajith Prasad, Tool Makers: A Concise History of Humans & Science

“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“We know that man's a fighting animal by nature, that cruelty's his birthright; and we also know that what keeps us in the pit as animals are the armies and armaments.”
― James Leslie Mitchell, Three Go Back

“God regretted creating man. What else do you want to know about man?”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Every human is an African diaspora.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“If one day far in the future, mankind is truly able to fly to the moon, we will have Georges Melies and the movies to thank for helping us understand that if our dreams are big enough, anything is possible.”
― Brian Selznick

“God made variety; man created division!”
― Bettse Folsom

“Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes.”
― C.G. Jung, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung

“Our good friend the Leopard still doesn't know that there is no black in man, only shades and shades of gray.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“The world is strange and people keep making it stranger.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf