Mankind Quotes - Page 13

• Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Wine, Biblical, Glasses

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, People

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Common Purpose

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• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Magic, Dawn, Easy

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

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Economy, Higher

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• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Priorities, World, Contradiction

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• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Privilege, Might, Sake

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• That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Mean, Patriotic

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• The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

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• To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

  David Hume

  Stupidity, Events, Ordinary

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• Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Expression, Oneness, Religion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2974, Manonmani Publishers

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Community, Choices

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• My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Believe, Mean, Ontology

  Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.70

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• What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

  Francis Collins

  Powerful, Book, Science

  Francis Collins' remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. June 26, 2000.

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• Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

  Israel Zangwill

  People, World, Messages

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• The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

  H. G. Wells

  Special, World, Lasts

  H. G. Wells “Outline of History”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Reading, World, Pulse

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• 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.

  Irving Langmuir

  Winning, Benefits, Recognition

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• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  Irving Langmuir

  Needs, Benefits, Prove

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Herbert Read

  Coherence, Degrees, Evolution

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, Years, People

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• I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

  Julian Lennon

  Done, Kind, Touring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

  William Tyndale

  Kids, Sight, Law

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.354

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