Mankind Quotes · Page 151

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round…

— Arnold Palmer

It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of…

— Derek R. Audette

There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local…

— Douglas Adams

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

— Ayn Rand

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

— Bertrand Russell

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

— John Fletcher

Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race…

— Yuval Noah Harari

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the…

— Isaac Asimov

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

— Bahá'u'lláh

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks,…

— Douglas Clegg

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives…

— John Locke

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering…

— Steven Seagal

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Thomas Jefferson

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment…

— James Madison

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind…

— H. L. Mencken

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of…

— Henry Fielding

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

— Chris Hedges

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously…

— Melissa Gilbert

Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or…

— Peter Medawar