Humankind Quotes
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
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.
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.
Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.
By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.
Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.
The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up. That's a pretty simple action.
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way
If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.