Mankind Quotes - Page 36

• Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Roots, Selfishness, Needs

  Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Mass With Dedication Of The Church Of The Sagrada Familia And Of The Altar, w2.vatican.va. November 7, 2010.

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• By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Men, Poison

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• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Boys

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• But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Independent, Men, Convince Us

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humility, Would Be, World

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• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Indulge In

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• In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.191

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• Great God, what do I see and hear!
  The end of things created!
  The judge of mankind doth appear
  On clouds of glory seated!
  The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
  The dead which they contained before;
  Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!

  Martin Luther

  Clouds, Judging, Soul

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• Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
  [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

  Ovid

  Savages, Pleasure, Said

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• It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

  Samuel Johnson

  Genius, Firsts, Diligence

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.197

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Strong, Believe

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

  John Sterling

  Poetry, Joy, Magic

  John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168

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• Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

  John Dryden

  Good Life, Mean, Use

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185

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• Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

  John Dryden

  Grace And Mercy, Heaven, Attributes

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187

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• Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

  Bill Vaughan

  America, Claims

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• It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

  George Washington

  Justice, People, Giving

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.38, New York : J. Wiley

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• The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

  George Washington

  Success, Thinking, Events

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.316

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• Happy those
  Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
  Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
  Taught wisdom to mankind!

  Robert Southey

  Wisdom, Years, Taught

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.8

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Gambling, Luxury, Temptation

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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• Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wish, Age, Pleasure

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author”, p.258

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• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hero, Ambition, Pestilence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Attachment, Discipline

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1: Lectures, 1795: On Politics and Religion”, p.46, Princeton University Press

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• It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

  Edmund Burke

  Wicked, Rivals, Ruins

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

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