Mankind Quotes

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
George Gissing

Stupidity, Nations, Capacity

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel

Mysterious, Superior, Average

Mankind advances only through struggle.
Gustav Stresemann

Struggle, Through, Advances

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Elihu Root

War, Social, Original

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi

Science, Far, Word

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
Arthur Keith

Before, Group, Natural

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Arnold Palmer

Time, Simple, Greatest

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Herbert Simon

Science, Design, Study

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Vicente Fox

Experience, May, Together

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly

Art, Powerful, Real

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Richard Le Gallienne

Service, Ready, Modern

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach

Moment, Fact, Point

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

Sacrifice, Deserves

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Shelby Foote

Love, Home, Mind

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
Virginia Foxx

Liberty, Unique, Westerners

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
Orson Pratt

Nature, God, Government

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow

Religion, Human, Situation

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.
Arthur Henderson

War, Human, Either

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
Whittaker Chambers

Struggle, Free, Become

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
George William Curtis

Great, Best, Thoughts

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.
Ezra Stiles

Liberty, Free, Conscience

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
Caleb Carr

Different, Put, Reason

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Harri Holkeri

History, Different, Violence

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Johan Huizinga

Life, Giving, Easy

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek

End, Might, Triumph

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Problems, Her

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Peace, Alone, Greatest

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Fear, Majority, Beat

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
Carl Maria von Weber

Love, Music, Arts

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
Hu Jintao

Change, Challenge, Survival

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