Mankind Quotes - Page 5

• Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, New York, Real

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• O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Earth, Bitter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.177

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• We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

  Antonio Porchia

  World

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• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thieves, Murderer, Philanthropist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

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• God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

  Antonio Porchia

  Men, Given, Deals

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Power, Men

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sea, Land, Fortune

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Wish, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.89

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Respect, Animal

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• Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Men, People

  More Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1931) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

  Lech Walesa

  Two, Justice, People

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• Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

  Men, Seems

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creating, Brain, Evolution

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• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Breathing

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

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• However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

  Lewis Mumford

  Positive, Science, Technology

  "Technics and Civilization". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 8, section 13, 1934.

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, Hate, Ambition

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Our World, Law

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• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Men, Animal

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1950.

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• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humanity, Paradise, Hell

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Equality, Tolerance, Suffering

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.27

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• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Ideas, History

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131

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