Humankind Quotes

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forev...

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any ...

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be meas...

The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the...

And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off fr...

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be other...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I...

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral cons...

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex m...

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.