Mankind Quotes

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The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves… — Homer
Why do there have to be rules for everything? It's gotten to the point that rules dominate just about every aspect of our lives. In… — Jack Handey
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced… — Freeman Dyson
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available… — Thomas A. Edison
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. — Will Durant
Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes. — Wes Fesler
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science,… — Blaise Pascal
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate,… — John F. Kennedy
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it… — Leo Tolstoy
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should… — Elie Wiesel
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.… — Emil Fackenheim
If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense;… — David Eugene Edwards
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. — Thomas Jefferson
Man is no man, but a wolf — Plautus
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them — George Santayana
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to… — Charles Caleb Colton
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor — Lucille Kallen
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is… — William James
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make… — Winston Churchill
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that… — Swami Vivekananda
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates… — Francois Arago
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for… — Unknown Author

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