Mankind Quotes

3075 Mankind quotes by 1527 unique authors

A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much… — J. C. R. Licklider
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in… — Fredrick Hatfield
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor… — William J. H. Boetcker
Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less… — Lewis Fry Richardson
The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who… — J I Packer
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious… — Edward Gibbon
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind. — Ayn Rand
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How… — Ibn Hazm
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and… — Vaclav Klaus
I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American. — Samuel Johnson
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. — Georg Simmel
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and… — Sigmund Freud
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. — Henry Bergh
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in… — E. O. Wilson
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people… — Ralph Nader
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind. — Pope Paul VI
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most… — John Stuart Mill
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. — John Stuart Mill
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of… — Thomas Jefferson
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,… — Thomas Jefferson
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through… — Darcy O'Brien

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