Quotes About Mankind

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.

I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

But one thing we've always agreed on is that there's no politics or religion in science. No boundaries. Secrecy benefits states, but shared knowledge is the way forward for mankind.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends

The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord. The king is history slave. History, that is, the unconscious general swarm life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of things as a tool for its own purposes

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

I don't think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man - as in mankind - in an ocean, just you and it. It's not about conquering the ocean, it's about working with it.

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

He lit another cigar, and began to brood over the folly of mankind.

Why the ancient rishis selected the cow for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow in India was the best comparison; she was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible. The cow is a poem of pity; one reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the second mother to millions of mankind. Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God.

As Lord Tennyson so truly says: Put down the passions that make earth Hell! Down with ambition, avarice, pride, Jealousy, down! Cut off from the mind The bitter springs of anger and fear; Down too, down at your own fireside, With the evil tongue and the evil ear, For both are at war with mankind!

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.

Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that entirely obliterated the Church's long-held teaching that mankind occupied the center of God's universe. His discovery was condemned by the Church for three centuries, but the damage had been

Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl—the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen—known as alcohol.