Mankind Quotes · Page 66

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

— Paul Tsongas

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

— Chad Wolf

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

— John Sterling

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's…

— Richard P. Feynman

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of…

— Al-Jahiz

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

— Henry Clay

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

— Frank Moore Colby

If animals could talk, they would tell us that the human beings should be simply more simple and less complicated.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices,…

— Joseph Addison

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden,…

— Josephus Daniels

We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work…

— Kurt Waldheim

Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount…

— Paul Polman

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am…

— David Hume

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include…

— Helen Keller

We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is…

— Sun Yat-sen

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the…

— Albert Einstein

The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no…

— Tom Waits

Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us…

— Bertrand Russell

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in…

— David Lloyd George

“Your short understanding, your clipped mind, your hollow heart, will make more of mankind than it has the power to become. Make…

— Johannes von Saaz

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

— John Maynard Keynes

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

— Rene Dubos

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

— Thomas Paine

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These…

— Harri Holkeri

“I think that one of the biggest flaws of mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.”

— Daniel Willey

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict…

— Leslie Groves

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

— Dane Cook

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed,…

— Mike Hughes

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

— Victor Hugo

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

— Saadi

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

— Jeff Cooper

“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

— Sophocles