Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

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.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

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

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.