Mankind Quotes - Page 18

• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

  Hans Arp

  Anxiety, Ego, Noise

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• It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, Would Be, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

  Will Durant

  Doe, Individual, Dies

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1957). “The Story of Civilization: The Reformation”

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• How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

  Pietro Metastasio

  Errors, Ignorant, Wonder

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• Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Destiny, Self, Cells

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• Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Despair, Should

  1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

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• The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teaching

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.163

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• For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

  Victor Hugo

  Kings, Wind, Desert

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Simple, Interesting, Humanity

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• This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Men, Religion

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Men, Practice

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fighting, Brave, Coward

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Views, Toil

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.548

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• The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Evil, Groups

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• Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

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• Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Unwilling

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.57

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• Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Sick, Drink

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 229, 2006.

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• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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• God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Promise, Matter, Comfort

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

  Socrates

  Views, Offers

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• I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Lying, Believe

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Perfection, Development, Symptoms

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• I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Pain, Thinking, Order

  "Change". Booklet by Katherine Hunt, issuu.com. March 28, 2012.

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