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Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

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.

Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won't be a future.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

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

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 do have my concerns for mankind as a species. Way I see it, humans are in transition. Accelerating at f**king light speed into some new insanity, and no one really knows how it's going to turn out.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

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.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.