Mankind Quotes
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel.
During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.
I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.
They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!