Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason
Adams, Samuel

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs
Aesop

If I could get my membership fee back, I’d resign from the human race
Allen, Fred

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes
Alliluyeva, Svetlana

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart
Amiel, Henri-Frederic

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Aristotle

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Armstrong, Neil Alden

The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Bradbury, Ray Douglas

Man is a puny, slow, awkward, unarmed animal
Bronowski, Jacob

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Camus, Albert

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience
Chardin, Teilhard de

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly.  But with humans it is the other way around:  a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men
Disraeli, Benjamin

We should remember that the world is wide; that there are a thousand million different human wills, opinions, ambitions, tastes, and loves; that each person has a different history, constitution, culture, character, from all the rest.
Eddy, Mary Baker

Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: ‘Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?
Einstein, Albert

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man
Einstein, Albert

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
Gould, Stephen Jay

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
Greville, Fulke

I think I learnt more going round the clubs in Barnsley than I learnt at Oxford about the human race in general.
Hague, William Jefferson

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred

In comparison to the universe surrounding us, the stars we gaze upon night after night and the planet which sustains our life, we are nothing - a mere speck of dust. Unlike the mountains which can grow and grow, or the vast oceans, with destructive power unimaginable, we Humans have no potential to grow physically. Our only greatness is in what others perceive of us – beyond that we are limited to our mere mortal bodies. This, I believe, is one of the greatest tragedies of humanity and the source of much despair and greed throughout out history.
Howard, Geoff