The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Mankind Quotes (842 Quotes)
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate mankind.
To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.
The future of mankind will ultimately be decided by the choice between the city, which contains the seeds of man's salvation, and the machine which, as a substitute for happiness, may eventually be the cause of his complete destruction.
Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self, and service for all mankind.
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know the work of Eros is precisely this.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
He Clemenceau had one illusion - France and one disillusion - mankind.
Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by passion therefore a gift bestowed on the passionless brings great reward.
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient that we are only 6 percent of the world's population that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
This span of life was lent for lofty duties, not for selfishness not to be wiled away for aimless dreams, But to improve ourselves, and serve mankind.
Bright portals of the sky, Emboss'd with sparkling stars, Doors of eternity, With diamantine bars, Your arras rich uphold, Loose all your bolts and springs, Ope wide your leaves of gold, That in your roofs may come the King of Kings. O well-spring of this All Thy Father's image vive Word, that from nought did call What is, doth reason, live The soul's eternal food, Earth's joy, delight of heaven All truth, love, beauty, good To thee, to thee be praises ever given O glory of the heaven O sole delight of earth To thee all power be given, God's uncreated birth Of mankind lover true, Indearer of his wrong, Who doth the world renew, Still be thou our salvation and our song.
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964)
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.
Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind's leading of the blind .
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
Music is the universal language of mankind.... poetry their universal pastime and delight.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Those who speak with discretion Are respected by mankind, As the sun, emerging from the shadows, By its rays creates great warmth.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
The governor depends on the university being an economic engine for the state. Having a private research institute will enhance our ability to more quickly transfer discoveries to the marketplace for the benefit of the university, the state and humankind.
Masturbation the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease in the twentieth, it's a cure.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for 'the Church' but for 'the whole inhabited world'. The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.
To whom the patriarch of mankind replied.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
It is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach but we shut our eyes and, like people in the dark, fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.
Acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.