Quotes About Mankind

He grieved for the loss of his friend, and he grieved over the follies of mankind, the repeated choice for falsehood, generation after generation, as men preferred darkness to light, the mystery of iniquity to the long, hard labors of love.

God's mercy for mankind is limitless," Elijah continued, "but He will not permit evil to go on devouring the good forever. That would not be mercy.

Strauss's later judgment on the Kantian-Cohenian idea of ethical socialism was dispositive: Cohen's thought belongs to the world preceding World War I. Accordingly, he had a greater faith in the power of modern Western culture to mold the fate of mankind than seems warranted now. The worst things he had experienced were the Dreyfus scandal and the pogroms instigated by Czarist Russia; he did not experience Communist Russia and Hitler's Germany.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

You know the magazine I work for: all we're trying to do is create an artificial mankind, a frivolous one that will no longer be open to seriousness or to humor, which, until it dies, will engage in an increasingly desperate quest for fun and sex; a generation of definitive kids. We are going to succeed, of course; and, in that world, you will no longer have your place.

world!" "A republic is undoubtedly the way forth for mankind," Jefferson agrees. "But will men be willing to govern themselves, or is it more convenient to hand the reins of power to someone who promises free bread and wine?

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

As J. S. Mill wrote, "No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

En su maldad, el hombre es más cruel y más endurecido que el cocodrilo del río y corazón es más duro que la piedra

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life.

May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

I was an angel looking down into the world, into one car on the world, into two members of mankind, into their souls, and into the place behind their souls: the void.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Geometry . . . is the science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. —THOMAS HOBBES

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Biological infantilism atrophies in a person many useful qualities of survival due to selfishness, the population of mankind will be significantly reduced.

Selfless nobility is a panacea for all the moral diseases of mankind, in the pharmacy of the philosophy of good and light. Aphorism should become a cure for evil.

Free-will exists because there is no prophet, tyrant, or so-called gods who have ever conquered all the hearts and minds of mankind at once.

Listening and hearing is one thing, but understanding is the most crucial part of the equation of mankind.

The impact of colonization caused the delay in the evolution of mankind. The mental capacity of man has been reduced to that of animals. So let's break this mental slavery and the decolonization of the Will.