Mankind Quotes

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

God is the Creator of all things.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.