Quotes About Mankind

I put it to you that no rule consciously invented by mankind since we acquired speech has force equivalent to those inherited from perhaps fifty, perhaps a hundred thousand generations of evolution in the wild state. I further suggest that the chief reason why modern society is in turmoil is that for too long we claimed that our special human talents could exempt us from the heritage written in our genes.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

King Maxel is the greatest soul ever known to mankind.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.

Perhaps the greatest social servise that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family George Bernard Shaw