Words matter. These are the best Mankind Quotes from famous people such as James Rouse, Lysander Spooner, Theodore White, Rockwell Kent, Tom Shadyac, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Visions describe what best should be, could be – if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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.
There’s one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that’s evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.
Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
I mean… mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It’s horrible that we’re going back to medieval times.
No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
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.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind’s heritage.
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity’s tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature’s secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
A revolution is to bring on change and we’re spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I’m a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn’t evolved is mankind’s spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho’ slain by millions, millions left behind?
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes – pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
