Mankind Quotes
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It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.
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Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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Diversity is really a richness for mankind.
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me
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We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
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'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
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The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.
