Mankind Quotes (842 Quotes)

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth That God is our friend By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless centuries, The long and heroic struggle of mankind ... O my Soul, dare to trust this truth Dare to rest in Gods kindly arms, Dare to look confidently into His face, Then launch thyself into life unafraid Knowing thou art within my Fathers house, That thou art surrounded by His love, Thou wilt become master of fear, Lord of Life, conqueror even of death.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Mankind does need to move away from where we are to explore somewhere else.

In Praise so just, let ev'ry Voice be join'd,
And fill the Gen'ral Chorus of Mankind!

We will always steadfastly pursue the peaceful development road and join with all nations in the world to collectively advance the lofty causes of peace and development of humankind,

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

The U.N. family must do its part, but today I also call yet again on member states to do all they can to ensure a secure environment for U.N. staff as they go about their work in the service of humankind,

It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind

Time advances facts accumulate doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Blest with a Taste exact, yet unconfin'd;
A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind;
Gen'rous Converse; a Sound exempt from Pride;
And Love to Praise, with Reason on his Side?

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme For respecting the dead what's the limit of time --Scopas Brune.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

The man who is worthy of being 'a leader of men' will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeatthat is the final proof of power.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

The history of mankind is his character.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Jesus once declared that God is 'good to the ungrateful and the wicked' (St. Luke 635), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.

Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture. . .