Mankind Quotes
There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.
I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!
It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
Do not tell me you don’t know you’re pretty. If so, I’m about to lose all faith in mankind. You don’t want to be responsible for that.
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.