Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations 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

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

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

General consultant to mankind.

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.

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

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

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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

Herb is the unification of mankind.

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

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

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

Here let me sit in sorrow for 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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