Humankind Quotes - Page 13

• The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

  Edward Abbey

  Nuclear, Bombs, Physicist

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

  Edward Abbey

  Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Shapes, Want

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• Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Technology, Opportunity

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• The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

  Lisa Ling

  Girl, Helping Others, Impact

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.

  Al Gore

  New Relationship, Civilization, Faces

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• God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, God, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Unity

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• I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.

  Rich Mullins

  Love, Cancer, Ignorance

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.

  Richard Lewontin

  Believe, Discovery, Age

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 ).

  Paul Brand

  Children, Men, Good Man

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• I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Thinking, Europe

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Passion, Self, Knowing

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• Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Struggle, Animal, Clothes

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Cutting

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

  Saadi

  Secret, Scandal, Failing

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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

  Joseph Addison

  Women, Gravity, Vivacity

  "Complete Works of Joseph Addison".

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• The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Class, Two

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.343

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• A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Strong, Men, Air

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• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

  Anatole France

  Past, Men, Civilization

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• Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Form, Human Condition

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.669

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