Mankind Quotes
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him.
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.