Mankind Quotes

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

Karel Capek

MeEndTriumphWillMankindMuch

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Frances Burney

MoreMankindMayMustThemDespise

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

ManDutyImproveOwnHoldMankind

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

John Hillcoat

ThinkEnvironmentMankindThreat

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Mencius

ManEvilHeavenMankindFearsDoes

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

GoodPlantReasonMankindGifts

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Mike Love

FightThingsMankindAbout

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

MusicKnowledgeWorldMankindCannot

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

ClimbLegalMankindUpwardThose

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

Claude Vorilhon

LifeReachWillCloningMankind

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

William Shenstone

GoodManMankindQualitiesHeWhich

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

UnityEarthSpiritMankindWhole

I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind.

Serinda Swan

TravelFriendsThailandMankindBali

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Thomas Clarkson

BornMankindLocalSpotWhichWere

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis de Sade

GodWrongMankindForgiveIdeaSole

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

James Nesbitt

GodBestGiftThoughtMankindSince

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Adams

WomanStudyMankindProper

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

George Santayana

AchievementCreativeUpMankind

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka

HistoryTwoMankindInstantBetween

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

Charles Lindbergh

DignityPersonRaceJewishMankind

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

StudyMankindBooksProper

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

FreeGiftNameWillHappenMankind

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

GoodStoryScholarMankindWriter

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

PurposeTalentMankindWants

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