Future Of Mankind Quotes

• We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Illusion, Mankind, Shed

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• Science is the future of mankind.

  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

  Mankind

  "Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications". Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, September 15, 2008.

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• What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Future, Premonition, Mankind

  Song: I Don't Know

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• The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Mind, Doubt

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• The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Lying, Responsibility, Waiting

  Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat (2013). “For This Land: Writings on Religion in America”, p.5, Routledge

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Believe, Optimistic, Reality

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Believe, Survival, Inheritance

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• We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Justice, Naked

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

  Jacques Monod

  Two, Growth, Next

  "French Nobel Biologist Says World Based On Chance". "The New York Times", (p. 6), www.nytimes.com. March 15, 1971.

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Men, Waiting

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

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• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Freedom, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Future, Views

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• I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Country, Simple

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• Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Way, Found, Intensity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.455, Routledge

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Truth, Future, Spirit

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.245, Henry Holt and Company

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• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Years, Finals, Study

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Destiny, Intelligent, Europe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Past, Men, Self

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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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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Moving, Hero, Play

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• A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.193, Schocken

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Sacrifice, Maturity, Our Generation

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