I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
—Charles M. Schulz
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
—H. L. Mencken
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
—Jack Kerouac
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
—Albert Schweitzer
Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one—if he had the power—would be justified in silencing mankind.
—John Stuart Mill
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.
—Jan de Hartog
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
—Edward Gibbon
Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
—André Gide
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
—Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.
—Andy and Larry Wachowski
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
—Bertrand Russell
What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them.
—Joseph Baretti
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.
—Mark Twain
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
—Samuel Butler