Mankind Quotes - page 6

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. (Sydney Smith)
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. View quote
William J. Brennan
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. View quote
Joseph Conrad
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. View quote
Milan Kundera
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. View quote
John Locke
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. (Arthur Henderson)
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. View quote
Arthur Henderson
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. View quote
Elihu Root
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! View quote
Leon Bourgeois
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind. (Linda Blair)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. View quote
Augustus Hare
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. View quote
David R. Brower
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. View quote
David Wilkerson
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. View quote
Ezra Stiles