Mankind Quotes
Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.
Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.