Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

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

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

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.

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

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

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of 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 real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

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

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.