Mankind Quote by Elihu Root Download Open image “War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.” — Elihu Root ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mankind Nature of man Social War
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“That war was inaugurated not reluctantly, but lustily, by men who believed property in humans to be the cornerstone of civilization, to be an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
