Humankind Quotes - Page 11

• No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Israel, People

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• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Acceptance, Power, Men

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. I), 1916.

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• In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, September 11, Events

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Two, Mars, Planets

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• Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

  John Adams

  Education, Mind, Superstitions

  "John Adams: Quotes & Facts". Book by Blago Kirov, 2016.

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• The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

  John Adams

  Drama, Tragedy, World

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.127

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• Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Blessing, Journey

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Stupid, Arrogant

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Individual Effort, Generations, Lifetime

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Want, Woe

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1985). “Faust/Bilingual”, Bantam Classics

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• For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

  James Branch Cabell

  War, Effort, Ruins

  James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

  John Adams

  Events, Determined, Virtue

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Every ant  knows the  formula of its ant-hill, every  bee knows  the formula  of its  beehive. They know it  in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Bees, Doe, Way

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• Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

  Paul Goodman

  Kids, Evil, Creative

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• To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

  John Adams

  Volunteer, Virtue, Be Good

  "What The Founding Fathers Said About Success Will Change Your Approach To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2013.

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• We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

  John Adams

  Virtue, Parliament, Public Life

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.116, UPNE

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• You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

  John Adams

  Life And Love, Poetry, Liberty

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 14 May 1781

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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sea, Two, Sailing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

  John Adams

  Principles, Politics, Stand Alone

  "Who is Bernie Sanders?" by Tom Pappalardo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Humankind above all is lazy.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lazy

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• We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Loneliness, Order

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• A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

  John Adams

  Patriotic, Heart, Men

  John Adams (1805). “Discourses on Davila: A series of papers, on political history. Written in the year 1790, and then published in the Gazette of the United States”, p.26

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• The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Wheels, Misery, Pleasure

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