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For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

General consultant to mankind.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

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.

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.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

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

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

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?

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

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

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.

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 great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

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.