Quotes About Mankind

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

The two ideologies which have brought mankind to the brink of extermination are simply mirror images of each other showing a classical form of lateral inversion that masks their true nature.

He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.

Testimonies of the Apostles about the Baptism of Jesus Who Had Taken on the Sins of Mankind

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

We must conclude that mankind came to a knowledge of these things through the medium of some primitive revelation.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear.... Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

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.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Mankind has gotten so very sick. Sometimes I'm glad that I'm very near the end of my days on earth.

The radicals are right about that. Diversity is the key. "But it need not be the same diversity as existed before mankind. Indeed, it cannot be the same. We are in a time of changes. Species will pass away and others take their place, as has happened before. An ecosystem frozen in stone can only become a fossil.

But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God's special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners. Considering our divine origins, such disrespect is the worst form of impiety. I'm sure your Grace agrees.

The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, or foolish, or the wicked.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

The world must be peopled!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!

What kind o' man is he? Why, of mankind.