Mankind Quotes
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.
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.
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe…
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
