Mankind Quotes (842 Quotes)

The seven astronauts on board were accomplished women and men of great courage who put their extraordinary skills and knowledge to the service of humankind,

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

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

All mankind love a lover.

And then we went to the end of worlds time with our thoughts burdened by the glory of the lie of this false spirituality of mankind that rests on its own truth as if it would be eternal and not ephemeral, as if it would be a weight in the balance of Creation and not at its feet, as if it were truth and not lie.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own mind.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen he studied from the life, And in th original perusd mankind.

If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

If all mankind were to suddenly practice honesty, thousands of people would be sure to starve.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

God has given to all men an agency and has granted to us the privilege to serve him or serve him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, and this privilege is given to all men irrespective of creed, color or condition. The wealthy have this agency, the poor have this agency, and no man is deprived by any power of God from exercising it in the fullest and in the freest manner. This agency has been given to all. This is a blessing that God has bestowed upon the world of mankind, upon all his children alike.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Riches and honours which drown the greater part of mankind, who have the gospel, in perdition, can be little or no temptations to us.

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.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Philosophy is systematic reflection upon the common experience of mankind.

We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.

The prayer is the symbol of vanity and not of bowing before a divinity, because it only though prayer that man becomes solidary to divinity. Once man becomes solidary to Divinity, to the Universe, he becomes free, because the base of this divinity is the vanity of vanities He becomes free through Vanity because everything is vanity, the entire world and all of mans divinity Before understanding all of this, mankind will have to go through sufferings that are hard to imagine. There will be several wars, more and more devastating, with many victims killed in the most barbaric way possible, and all of this so that some may dominate this world through fire and sword and others to remain their slaves. Mankind will go through times with more and more unmerciful diseases due to viruses that will be, most of them, created in military genetics laboratories. They will kill a great number of persons and they will bring new sufferings. The political and administrative maps will be constantly changing as a result of deaths and occupations of all sorts.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

They that fight for freedom undertakeThe noblest cause mankind can have at stake.

The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith. And to our children and our children's children, we can say, We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.

How else can we influence the social evolution or could we speed up the return of the man to the Sacred Self We people cannot influence in any way the future evolution of mankind, because everything that is meant to happen will happen, because all of thes

Each man has his appointed day short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

To me, it seems that mankind can never achieve its highest potentialities till it has thrown off the incubus of historic (and prehistoric) religion . . .

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

I think people really liked that show in kind of a dark way or they had a very caustic reaction to it. This story is ultimately about hope. It's about the caper. It's about the mystery. This is not about the depravities of mankind.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind