Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Jesus is the ultimate solution to every human problem and the ultimate hope for all mankind.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

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

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

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

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 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.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

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 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.