"Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?" - Bible, Malachi 2:10

"It's more comfortable to feel that we're a slight improvement on a monkey thin such a fallin' off fr'm th'angels." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley On Making a Will

"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature." - William Hazlitt

"For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all." - Homer

"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable." - Samuel Johnson

"Neither sex, without some fertilisation of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour." - Henry Louis Mencken

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken

"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?" - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science)

"Man can be scientifically manipulated." - Bertrand Russell

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." - Robert H. Schuller

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates

"Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." - Mark Twain

"Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" - BIBLE, Malachi 2:10

"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood." - LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speech (1963)

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., quoted in New York Journal-American

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (1964)

"Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
- WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass

"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals." - PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS, The Marriage of Figaro

"For Mercy has a human heart;
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine;
And Peace, the human dress."
- WILLIAM BLAKE, The Divine Image

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." - CHARLES DICKENS, A Tale of Two Cities

"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" - ISAK DINESEN, Seven Gothic Tales

"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan

"Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species." - WILLIAM JAMES, in Atlantic

"Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human." - ANTONIO MACHADO, Juan de Mairena

"A human being . . . an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing." - CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Human Being

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed." - BLAISE PASCAL, Pensées

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room." - BLAISE PASCAL, Pensées

"Man is a biped without feathers." - PLATO, Politicus

"Man is no man, but a wolf." - PLAUTUS, Asinaria

"Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught." - PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History

"Nothing is more wretched or more proud than man." - PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History

"Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest and riddle of the world!"
- ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man

"Man is the measure of all things." - PROTAGORAS, attributed

"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs." - (MADAME) JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND, attributed

"How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in `t!"
- SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
- SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

"There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man." - SOPHOCLES, Antigone

"I am a man; and nothing human is foreign to me." - TERENCE, Heauton Timoroumenos

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." - Braun, Warner von when asked if man can be replaced by computer in spaceflight