Mankind Quotes

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not ...

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certai...

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't ...

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himsel...

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he...

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as l...

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. T...

This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spiri...

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to...

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exception...

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is t...

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construc...

I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each ...

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, a...

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved ...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods...

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of t...

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that...

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;Our only portion is the ...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the ...

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our m...

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YO...

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are ...

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead...

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluste...

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper...

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...

Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, cont...

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you unde...

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of t...

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearmen...

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, b...

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer,...

What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all ...

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits tha...

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear th...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!' said Hammond. 'Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any w...

It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is re...

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environmen...

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

God sends his Son – here lies the only remedy. It is not enough to give man a new philosophy or bett...