Quotes About Mankind

To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.

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.

The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes them always able to evade it discreetly, to slip round it.

I am very old,' he said gravely. He added, as a matter of course: 'I'm glad to die in Africa.' 'And why?' 'Because this is where mankind began. The cradle of humanity is in Nyasaland. It's been pretty well proved.' 'Odd reason.' 'One dies better at home.' 'Yet another one, I thought, who's trying to find a home on earth.

What amazed Cardinal Sandomme not a little was that all the bishops present were behaving as if there were something new and unexpected in the situation, as if some new calamity had suddenly hit mankind's spiritual fiber. Yet this was nothing but the latest step on the road of spiritual degradation mankind had taken long ago . . .

You know, Chavez, what Kaiser Wilhelm said after he had caused the death of millions? He said: 'Ich habe das nicht gewollt.' I didn't want THIS to happen. A worthy epitaph for mankind.

May, if man had access to God he would try to tap Him for power . . . what a source of energy! Who can deny that since the dawn of history, mankind's fascination with gods, and God has been above all a fascination with power?

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

La emoción más fuerte y antigua de la humanidad es el miedo, y el más fuerte y antiguo tipo de miedo es el miedo a lo desconocido

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

In order to make an error, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.

A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history -- certain humans are situations.

for godhood and the hope for mankind, and within each of us is the original sin of laziness, the ever-present force of entropy pushing us back to childhood, to the womb and to the swamps from which we have evolved.

Juvenile or adult, War and Peace or Treasure Island, Pride and Prejudice or Beauty and the Beast, a great work of the imagination is one of the highest forms of communication of truth that mankind has reached. But a great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or to agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is.

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine.

Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes!

A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot and he creates Gods by the dozen. —Michel de Montaigne, Essais

Spirit and flesh, feeling and reason can never again be made one. It's too late. For the moment we are crippled by the appalling disease of spiritual deficiency; and the disease is fatal. Mankind has done everything possible to annihilate itself, starting with its own moral annihilation—physical death is merely the result.