Mankind Quotes
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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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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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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
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God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
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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 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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No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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Animals don't frighten me. Mankind does.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.
