Mankind Quotes

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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. — Robert Breault
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. — Augustus William Hare
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. — Robert Breault
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. — Antonio Porchia
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? — Robert Breault
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create… — Robert Breault
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I… — Carl Linnaeus
If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had… — Robert Breault
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work. — Henry Ford
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence. — Alexander Hamilton
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those… — Thomas Sowell
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. — Winston Churchill
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke

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