Quotes About Mankind

I do not think it too remote that we may come to regard the Earth, as some have suggested, as one organism, of which mankind is a functional part—the mind, perhaps.

as the bomb for Bohr and Oppenheimer was a weapon of death that might also end war and redeem mankind—is one way the poem expresses the paradox.

Oppenheimer was surprised and impressed. When Roosevelt died, he told an audience late in life, he had felt "a terrible bereavement . . . partly because we were not sure that anyone in Washington would be thinking of what needed to be done in the future." Now he saw that "Colonel Stimson was thinking hard and seriously about the implications for mankind of the thing we had created and the wall into the future that we had breached.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world – all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge only comes from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot help to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind.

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance, Ego & Immaturity.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Bugiardo! Bugiardo bastardo! Dicci, dov'è la tua umiltà, Merrin? Dove l'hai lasciata, nel deserto? Nelle rovine? Nelle tombe dove cerchi di fuggire dal tuo prossimo? Fuggire dagli ultimi, da quelli che non hanno una mente acuta come la tua? Sei capace di parlare agli uomini, feccia d'un prete?…»

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

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.

America, has fallen in the grip of the most portentous cycle in the history of mankind.