Quotes About Mankind

In the interest of thinking tragically in order to avoid tragedy, policy makers need to worry about how not to provoke more anarchy than the world has already seen.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. God's Garden

I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real. -Gregori Stuff? Four years of giving sermons, and that what I get back? Holy stuff?

You could be a member of a special, macho, elite force, protecting mankind from insidios evil in all forms, including the triple-decker bacon cheeseburger. I can saftly say I've never battled a cheeseburger.

But long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them; while on the other hand, to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.