Mankind Quotes

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As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility… — Hermann Joseph Muller
He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind… — Unknown Author
The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant… — Baird T. Spalding
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them… — Ronald Reagan
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind! — George Washington
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard… — Alexander Hamilton
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to… — Thomas Paine
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto… — John Quincy Adams
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be… — James Madison
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within… — James Madison
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will… — Benjamin Franklin
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes… — John Berger
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the… — Christian Morgenstern
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of… — Igor Sikorsky

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