Mankind Quotes
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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.
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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.
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The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
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I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Mankind must cease harming the harmless.
