Mankind Quotes
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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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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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
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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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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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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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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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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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Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
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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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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
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Diversity is really a richness for mankind.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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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What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.
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All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.
