Mankind famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
-- Albert Einstein -
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.
-- Amani -
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
-- Anthony Douglas -
For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
-- Archie Carr -
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
-- Aristotle -
The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.
-- Asaram -
Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
-- Ayn Rand -
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
-- Baldur von Schirach -
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me
-- Bhagat Singh -
What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
-- Bias of Priene -
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
-- Bob Geldof -
My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.
-- Brigham Young -
We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
-- Carl Jung -
The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
-- Carl Sandburg -
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
-- Cato the Elder -
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
-- Charles James -
The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
-- Charles Macklin -
The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
-- Charles Sumner -
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.
-- Chris Hedges -
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
-- Claude Vorilhon -
Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Mankind is at its best when it is most free.
-- Dante Alighieri -
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;
-- David Gelernter -
I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
-- David Richo -
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
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.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
-- Dion Fortune -
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
-- Dixie Lee Ray -
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind
-- Dmitry Pisarev -
Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems
-- Douglas Engelbart -
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.
-- Douglas Lenat -
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
-- Edward Abbey -
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
-- Elias Canetti -
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
-- Elias Canetti -
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
-- Elie Wiesel -
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
-- Elihu Root -
The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.
-- Ernest Klein -
For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
-- Ernest Vincent Wright -
I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate
-- Ernst Mayr -
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,
-- Eugene Ionesco -
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
-- Francis Atterbury -
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.
-- Fredric Brown -
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
-- Gene Cernan -
We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
-- George Mason -
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
-- George Orwell -
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
-- George Washington -
Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.
-- George Washington -
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.
-- Goa Gil -
The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'
-- Greg Smith -
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
Mankind advances only through struggle.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.
-- Guy Deutscher -
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…
-- H. G. Wells -
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
-- H. L. Mencken -
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
-- Henri Barbusse -
By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
-- Henry Clay -
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
-- Henry Clay -
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
-- Henry Clay -
Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.
-- Henry de Montherlant -
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
-- Henry Mackenzie -
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
-- Herbert Gold -
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
-- Hilaire Belloc -
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
-- Horace Greeley -
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.
-- Hortense Calisher -
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
-- Iain Pears -
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
-- Irving Langmuir
