Mankind Quotes

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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the… — John Quincy Adams
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning. — Jonathan Swift
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit… — Carl Jung
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of… — Carl Jung
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because… — Karl Marx
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of… — Immanuel Kant
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,… — Thucydides
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they… — Thucydides
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what… — Horace
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. — Ronald Reagan
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and… — John F. Kennedy
The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations… — George H. W. Bush
Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph. — Saddam Hussein
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day — Thornton Wilder
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the… — Michael Moorcock
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method… — Clifford D. Simak
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. — Napoleon Hill

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