Mankind Quotes

• What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • Different
  • Victim
  • Committed

• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  

  George Saville
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Knowing

• ... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Mankind
  • Possess
  • Prize

• All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
  • America
  • History
  • Happiness

• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Mankind
  • Providence

• But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  

  Homer
  • Enemy
  • Mankind
  • Fallen

• I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Mankind
  • Species
  • Exterminate

• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • God
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

  

  Ethel Percy Andrus
  • Growth
  • Mankind
  • Aging

• I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • Humanity
  • Jokes
  • Cameras

• Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

  

  William Gifford
  • Desire
  • Objects
  • Variety

• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Death
  • Mankind
  • Providence

• Our main inspiration with Alix MacKenzie, I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Art
  • Inspiration
  • Natural

• I reach into you to reach all mankind, And the deeper into you I reach The deeper glows elsewhere the world And sings of you. It says, To love is the one common miracle.

  

  Brian Patten
  • World
  • Miracle
  • Sings

• Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.

  

  Charles Sheldon
  • World
  • Moon
  • Ancestor

• Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Death
  • Mankind
  • Condition

• We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mankind
  • Anxious

• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Darkness

• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Words
  • Drug
  • Mankind

• Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

  

  Bernard Kouchner
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Mankind

• In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Suffering
  • Mankind
  • Soul And Body

• As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Beauty
  • Existence
  • Fisherman

• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Science
  • Philosophical
  • Invention

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

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Looks
  • Achievement
  • Doe

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