Mankind Quotes

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.