Mankind Quotes - Page 3

Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]

... I want to feel alive... so I don't have any thoughts on so far to ending my life. I still like people's impressions and expressions, I can't stop do that moreover to watch that.... Interesting face... once upon a time a girl asked me "How do I feel"... I said "Not okay"... and that was all... - Pretty confusing!

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

A world of goodness surrounds you.

Come, let me know whether thou art acreature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

The question “What is man?” is probably the most profound that can be asked by man. It has always been central to any system of philosophy or theology…. The point I want to make now is that all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and that we will be better off if we ignore them completely.

Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

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

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these fo

Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!

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

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.

Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MIS

No one man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being has something of value in their composition which makes them unique – just as every country has their own unique resources to share with the world. Never discount somebody based on material wealth, true wealth is what cannot be seen. Never discount a country by their size or resources, while their resources may greatly benefit other lands in need.

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

Zoltán looked at them through the window. He hated the man. Now he hated work. Work for these? Work with these? He saw before him the great puszta. Here the long, cracked stripe of a ditch once again stole the blue of the sky, transforming it into a deeper colour, renewing it, like an artist's palette: every pool on the meadows, every clump of flowers, was a jewel on the bosom of nature, a diadem, a string of pearls: oh, nature was lovely... That is, it would be if it could... But mankind... Among these? Struggle, fight, this greedy little piece of meat... Dark furrows on the wondrous surface, the many-branched, tufted promise of the maize, jewelled patches on God's regal robe: why was the world so lovely? to cover up the ugliness of man?

We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

No man is an island, entire of itself.

You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.

By the power of God, everything came into existence.

Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.

The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.

It is wonderful for us to live together in harmony and peace.

May we graciously accept our responsibility.

I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the

Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.

Jesus Christ died to save all mankind.

Religion can only do two things for mankind turn them into monster or stupid.

How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!

Unity is a beast in itself.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

Peaceful co-existence is the heart of humanity.