Mankind Quotes

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

I believe teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's like He said, 'Hey let's see how they like it to create something in their own image that denies their existence.'

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.