Mankind Quotes

• 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

• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Freedom
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Live
  • Man
  • Righteousness

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

  

  Ethel Percy Andrus
  • Growth
  • Mankind
  • Aging

• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Mankind
  • Christianity
  • Wickedness

• 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

• I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Humans
  • Evolution
  • Fields

• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Misery

• 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

• Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Mankind

• From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Discovery
  • Century
  • Judged

• And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

  

  George Hodges
  • Heaven
  • Christmas
  • Mankind

• 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

• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • Friend
  • Study

• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Relationship With God

• When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.

  

  Charles Galton Darwin
  • Quality
  • Humanity
  • Values

• 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

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

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Looks
  • Achievement
  • Doe

• Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

  

  Cargill Gilston Knott
  • Growing
  • Theory
  • Application

• 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

• The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Liberty
  • Judgment
  • Conscience

• 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

• Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

  

  Will Durant
  • Knowledge
  • Achievement
  • Mankind

• Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.

  

  George Finlayson
  • Literature
  • Historical
  • Burden

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