Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

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 real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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 to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

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

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

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

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

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

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

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

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

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

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