Quotes About Mankind

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. "Christ, how can our family be mankind's best hope?

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

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

The God concept, of course, originated from mankind's innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

Wisdom I who have decided to love mankind instead of men, to love life's contradictions, impossibilities. I who have grown into a fine old philosopher, when suddenly the telephone rings, his voice prickling the length of my neck. Or he teases me, calls me sweet little goose and my heart careens. What we love in another is the life in that person; that is why we must never seek to possess him. sweet little goose

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it."

Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.

Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

To the Greeks, the word character first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had, rather than means of distinguishing one from the whole.

And now, though feeble and short-lived, mankind has flaming fire and therefrom learns many crafts.

If Hesiod did write it, then a humble peasant, living on a lonely farm far from cities, was the first man in Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky, the gods, mankind, and to think out an explanation. Homer never wondered about anything.

With the coming forward of Greece, mankind became the center of the universe, the most important thing in it. This was a revolution in thought. Human beings had counted for little heretofore. In Greece man first realized what mankind was.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage

In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind (Chapter 65,p. 68)

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedoms.