However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If it is true that the basic quest of man is freedom, the question we must ask is: Is it freedom from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Nanotechnology will be responsible for the largest evolutionary change in mankind. Life as we know it 'will' become extinct. Humans will be… — Carl Stoynoff Copy Share Image
I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it. — Jason Zebehazy Copy Share Image
Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are complex and beyond extraordinary beings. Our creation alone supersedes our understanding. — Germaine Moody Copy Share Image
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of… — Lewis B. Schwellenbach Copy Share Image
Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world… We are partners with the rest. What affects… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families,… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . .… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol,… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Adrian G. Duplantier Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain. — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image