Mankind Quotes · Page 85

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

— John Updike

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

— Joseph Conrad

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

— Charles Manson

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and…

— Eugene Cernan

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or…

— Pierre Curie

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

— Bessel van der Kolk

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Blaise Pascal

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and…

— Thomas Huxley

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows…

— Samuel Richardson

We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so…

— Anonymous

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this…

— Jarvis Cocker

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself…

— John Quincy Adams

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in…

— Nostradamus

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears…

— Henry David Thoreau

I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives…

— Henry David Thoreau

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…

— C. Wright Mills

Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have…

— Martha Gellhorn

“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love…

— Suzy Kassem

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

— Anne Sexton

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

— Robert Hall

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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Berenice Abbott

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

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

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Kobo Abe

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

— Bertolt Brecht