Mankind Quotes

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"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. — George Crabbe
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge… — Milan Kundera
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man. — Wellington Mara
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption… — Samuel Johnson
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory… — Richard M. Weaver
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly. — Russell Kirk
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast… — Travis Beacham
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered… — Winston Churchill
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,… — Samuel Johnson
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical… — Jonathan Sacks
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have… — Marianne Williamson
She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There… — Edna O'Brien
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret… — Jean Cocteau
All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace. — Billy Graham
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever… — John Calvin
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. — Cotton Mather
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. — Winston Churchill
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. — Hilaire Belloc
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This… — Pliny the Elder

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