Mankind Quotes

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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself… — James Wolcott
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. — Swami Vivekananda
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon… — Rufus King
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. — Emile M. Cioran
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your… — Richard Eberhart
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for… — Abigail Van Buren
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the… — Barbara Tuchman
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind. — William Penn
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,… — Jeremy Bentham
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a… — Carl Jung
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to… — William Hazlitt
The love of power is the demon of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald
We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is… — H. Burke Peterson
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved… — Theodore White
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. — Albert Schweitzer
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended. — David Wilkerson
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity. — Albert Einstein
Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the… — Jacques Chirac
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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