Mankind Quotes

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.

Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.