Mankind Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If...

No man is an island, entire of itself.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...

For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks u...

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon...

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, ...

To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with the...

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious ...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of i...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; f...

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy so...

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born unti...

Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say ...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each ot...

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We...

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounte...

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his ...

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...

Man created words to free himself

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be other...

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can...

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil them...

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of th...

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagina...

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....

[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."Yes? Why is that?"Because ...

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not ...

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certai...

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't ...

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he...

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as l...

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. T...

This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spiri...

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to...

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exception...

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is t...

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construc...

I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each ...

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, a...

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved ...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods...

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of t...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...