Mankind Quotes

"The history of mankind is a history of war"

"Mankind invents things to fight about"

"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start"

Larry McMurtry, Writer

"Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors"

Irving Langmuir, Scientist

"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing"

Jan de Bont, Director

"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world"

Henry Brooks Adams

"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind"

James Martineau, Philosopher

"I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh"

Catherine Crowe, Writer

"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind"

Rockwell Kent, Artist

"History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind"

Irving Langmuir, Scientist

"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet

"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness"

Tran Duc Luong, President

"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis"

Oswald Mosley, Politician

"You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind"

Linda Blair, Actress

"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality"

William Winwood Reade, Historian

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all"

George Gissing, Novelist

"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth"

Pliny the Elder, Author

"The history of mankind is the history of ideas"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

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