Best 1077 quotes in «mankind quotes» category

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Do not tell me you don’t know you’re pretty. If so, I’m about to lose all faith in mankind. You don’t want to be responsible for that.

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything he can't do, ever, or anything that he isn't going to do.

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.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

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

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.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

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

General consultant to mankind.

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

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

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.

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?