John Buchan Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

  John Buchan

  Mother, Wife, Mankind

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.2222, e-artnow

• Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

  John Buchan

  Hands, Brain, Matter

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more”, p.3483, e-artnow

• It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

  John Buchan

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  "Prester John". Book by John Buchan, 1910.

• Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

  John Buchan

  Divine Justice, Law, Together

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.803, e-artnow

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