Mankind Quotes
3075 Mankind quotes by 1527 unique authors
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Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
— Hu Jintao
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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a…
— Laurens van der Post
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
— Charlotte Whitton
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It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though…
— David Hawkins
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest…
— Sophocles
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And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain…
— Henry Mackenzie
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Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
— Henry Mackenzie
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Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
— Isaac Newton
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I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct…
— John Haines
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
— Howard W. Hunter
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…
— H.G. Wells
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The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the…
— Pope Francis
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Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
— Pope John Paul II
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For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the…
— Mother Teresa
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There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy…
— Saul Alinsky
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An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to…
— Marvin Gaye
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I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
— Samuel Hahnemann
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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause…
— Woodrow Wilson
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