Mankind Quotes - Page 19

• Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

  John Vanbrugh

  Women, Weakness, World

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1982). “The Provoked Wife”, p.114, Manchester University Press

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• We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Jobs, Compassion, Self

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• Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Mean, Men, Use

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• Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, Civilization, People

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Flaws

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  George Saville

  Men, Knowing, Old Man

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• There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Art, Philosophy, Psychology

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• It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living.

  Lawren Harris

  Unique, People, Giving

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• My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Sublime, Reason

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• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Forever, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Grieving, Atoms, Unnecessary

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• The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Humble, Angel, Reality

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• I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Humanity, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.187, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Maturity, Thinking

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

  Archie Carr

  Earth, Environment, Wild Things

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• It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Encouragement, Attitude, Yoga

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• Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

  Rachel Carson

  Our World, Yesterday, Drug

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Justice, Age

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Race, Age, Prejudice

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.45, Arktos

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• In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Class, Government

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

  Henry Clay

  Competition, Affair, Humans

  Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.469

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• History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

  Marcus Garvey

  Determination, Race, History

  Marcus Garvey (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920”, p.616, Univ of California Press

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• Best Witchcraft is Geometry
  To the magician's mind -
  His ordinary acts are feats
  To thinking of mankind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1006, Harvard University Press

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• Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Worst

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