Mankind Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Humanity was never meant for mediocrity. Yet many among us are now, and will forever remain, limited by their profound lack of understanding. Some…

— Richard Duarte

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and…

— Charles Baudelaire

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

— Senora Roy

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

— Seamus Heaney

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

— George Santayana

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

— Sri Chinmoy

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

— Rose Macaulay

the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

— Jose Mujica

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds…

— Henry David Thoreau