Mankind Quotes - Page 2

• Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Strong

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• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Desire, Ease

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• I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Life, Relationship

  You're a Winner, Charlie Brown (1960)

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• Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Bait, Literature

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin

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• The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Scary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

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• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Simple, Diversity

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Teamwork, Collaboration

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Real Men, Evil, Nuclear

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.30, St. Martin's Press

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• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Life, Running

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• The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Justice, Poverty

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• I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.

  Poul Hartling

  Selfish, Lying, Future

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• It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Body, Enough

  Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.142, Penguin

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• Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

  Alva Myrdal

  Survival, Nuclear, Strive

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Struggle, Inspiration

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Family, Friends, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

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• You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Single, Cells, People

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Reading, Keys

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Humanity

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Half, Morality

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