Mankind Quotes

Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!' said Hammond. 'Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any w...

It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is re...

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environmen...

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

God sends his Son – here lies the only remedy. It is not enough to give man a new philosophy or bett...

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species a...

What is a hero without love for mankind.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...

It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a peopl...

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secre...

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow...

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all ma...

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is...

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

The moon was up now and the trees were dark against it, and he passed the frame houses with their na...

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on fal...

Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "s...

THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired o...

All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak...

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over....

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are danci...

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...

How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevert...

Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, po...

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can m...

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pess...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick ...

Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the p...

He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its ...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could....

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but ...

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, cou...

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible t...

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of t...

He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but t...

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fair...

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong ...

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper...

The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter belie...

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft withou...

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, a...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

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...