Mankind Quotes

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

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.

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.

The history of mankind is his character.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all 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.

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.

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.

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.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

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.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.