Quotes About Mankind

Aping Mankind is a one-stop shop for anyone who wishes to question the wild and often ludicrous claims that are made on behalf of biologism.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

To paraphrase the late Christopher Hitchens, religion was mankind's first and therefore worst tool for understanding the world. Yet for all that

Vous et moi, nous voulons savoir. Nous voulons connaître l'Univers dans tout ses secrets, les plus grands et les plus petits. Et nous savons déjà au moins une chose, c'est que l'homme est merveilleux, et que les hommes sont pitoyables, et que chacun de notre côté, dans notre morceau de connaissance et dans notre nationalisme misérable, c'est pour les hommes que nous travaillons.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.