Mankind Quotes · Page 59

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

— George Soros

The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the…

— Sappho

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

— Enrico Fermi

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery…

— Nigel Calder

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

— Saul Alinsky

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of…

— James Madison

I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to…

— Justin Rosenstein

When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to…

— Vance Havner

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book…

— George William Curtis

“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be…

— George Washington

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain,…

— Nostradamus

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by…

— Baruch Spinoza

When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings,…

— Julius Streicher

Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall…

— Pope Pius XII

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest…

— Alexander Hamilton

Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the…

— William Howard Taft

Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be…

— Abul A'la Maududi

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

— Edward Everett Hale

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

— George Santayana

“There is greatness in everyone. What is your purpose on the earth? Use your unique gifts and talent to influence mankind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone…

— J. Otis Yoder

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

— John Wilmot

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

— Irving Layton

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is its sanctification of the base human instincts that makes Islam the menace of all mankind”

— B.S. Murthy

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me…

— Ken Kesey

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

— William Godwin

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its…

— Wilbur A. Smith

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

— Otto Weininger