Mankind Quotes - Page 11

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Names, Identity

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

  Herman Melville

  Running, Men, Glowing

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.127, Velvet Element Books

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

  Juvenal

  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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• One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sight, Color, Generations

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.913, e-artnow

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• Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

  Euripides

  Home, Government, Way

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

  Real, Community, Crime

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.145, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Eccentric, Sanity

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

  Epictetus

  Men, Attainment, Nature Of Man

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.117

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• Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Names, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.130, Anchor

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• Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

  Lucy Larcom

  Philosophy, Simplicity, Needs

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• This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Education, Children, Learning

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

  Indira Gandhi

  Nature, People, Cynical

  Indira Gandhi (1992). “Safeguarding Environment”, p.21, New Age International

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

  John Cage

  Together Again, Religion, Able

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.83, Wesleyan University Press

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• The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Class, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.74, Penguin

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• A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Marriage, Facts, Brilliant

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.38

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• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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• Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

  Karel Capek

  Triumph, Literature, Might

  "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.

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• The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Path

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• One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Power, Order, Circles

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

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