Mankind Quotes - Page 7

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Animal, Laughing

  "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.

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• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Flower, Men, Two

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin

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• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Christian, Atheist

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  E. W. Howe

  Running, Men, Average

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Suffering, Unalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Totems, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.107, D. H. Lawrence

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• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

  Robert Breault

  Needs, Arms, Lord

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

  Bill Vaughan

  Israel, Florence, Minorities

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• Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Heart, Dictionary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Race, Decay

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “The White Peacock: Top Novelist Focus”, p.168, 谷月社

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• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

  Plato

  Witty, Political, Politics

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• The proper study of mankind is woman.

  Henry Adams

  Nature, Humanity, Study

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ocean, Blessed, Men

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Men, Envy

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.173, 谷月社

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• The proper study of mankind is books.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Study

  Crome Yellow (1921) ch. 28

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Challenges, Fantasy

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Ignorant, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

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• In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Dark, Equality, Diversity

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