Mankind Quotes · Page 72

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so…

— Alexander Hamilton

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is…

— Alexander Pushkin

Mankind, in the attempt to uncomplicate the complicate, almost always ends up complicating it even more.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's…

— Ridgely Torrence

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

— Anne Sexton

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

— Norman Borlaug

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,…

— George Washington

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up…

— Khalil Gibran

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the…

— John Haines

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and…

— Henry Clay

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow…

— Ivan Pavlov

This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey…

— Lord Byron

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the…

— Walter Benjamin

If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without…

— Thomas Hobbes

The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave…

— Dave Barry

“For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his…

— John Steinbeck

It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out…

— Eric Shinseki

“The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I…

— K.S. Ramakrishna Rao

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed…

— Carl Schurz

Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in continuing to liberate…

— Xi Jinping

The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Thomas Jefferson

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

— Stefan Molyneux

“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

— Fredric Brown

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

— Robert Hall

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

— James Madison

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

— Henrik Ibsen

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

— Kobo Abe

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for…

— Douglas MacArthur

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

— Berenice Abbott

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

— Robert Breault

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

— Benjamin Franklin

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

— James A. Garfield

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

— Stanislaw Lem