Top 50 Humankind Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Humankind Quotes from famous people such as Andrew W.K., Ashwin Sanghi, Ram Nath Kovind, Brian Chesky, Kailash Satyarthi, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's gre

I think J. S. Bach’s music stands among humankind’s greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach’s music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period – as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.
Andrew W.K.
Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.
Ashwin Sanghi
Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.
Ram Nath Kovind
Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
Brian Chesky
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
Ryan Holmes
I didn’t know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?
Bill Buford
I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,’ Star Trek’ world where people are jumping in their spacecraft.
Jared Isaacman
I’m so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of humankind.
Shannon Walker
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
Fidel Castro
After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.
George Monbiot
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Martin Amis
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Spike Lee
I’m honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.
Ellen Ochoa
New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.
Klaus Schwab
The Anthropocentic Age – the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet – cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.
Craig Venter
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Joseph Beuys
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Moza bint Nasser
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Humankind is getting more and more connected.
Hubert Burda
Indeed, if all of humankind could cooperate, trade and work together as the nations of the EU have done, then there would be more peace, prosperity and progress on this earth.
Hilary Benn
Humankind’s craving to control nature and exploit all its resources for profit can be wiped out in a stroke by an organism we cannot even see with the naked eye.
Ram Nath Kovind
Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. Nelson
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond Tutu
Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.
John M. Grunsfeld
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of ‘others’ and ‘our’ problems are being increasingly erased.
Janez Drnovsek
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.
Todd Barry
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Bill Nye
There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising – or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this – or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.
Bill Shorten
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.
Catherine Cortez-Masto
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are

Women’s strength, women’s industry, women’s wisdom are humankind’s greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
Michelle Bachelet
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau
When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, ‘How does man conceive to build something like this?’ It’s a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind’s power and vision. When you’re inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn’t exist.
Jonathan Anderson
I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all of humankind.
Jonny Kim
Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.
Jim Crace
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?
Marcy Kaptur
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.
Seth Shostak
There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn’t much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.
Richard Ben Cramer
If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete – there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.
Yuval Noah Harari
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
Al Franken
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal… People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people’s rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind – then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
Harry Belafonte
If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.
Steve Allen
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
Morris Dees
I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.
Debra Fischer
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter… the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
Ban Ki-moon
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal… building something in space that is really for all humankind.
Umberto Guidoni
You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America’s gift to world but God’s gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.
Joe Klein