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Mankind Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
- Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
- Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
- There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
- Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
- The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
- It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.…
- Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
- The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of…
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
- The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon…
- With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by…
- I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
- We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that…
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness…
- It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
- This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams