Mankind Quotes

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

General consultant to mankind.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.