Mankind Quotes

General consultant to mankind.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.