Mankind Quotes - Page 12

• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Moving, Hero, Play

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• Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

  Livy

  Matter, Dignity, Concern

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• Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.

  Robert Ardrey

  Father, Home, Lakes

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

  Elihu Root

  War, Social, Originals

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

  Hu Shih

  Truth, Principles, Needs

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• What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Moving, Heart, Science

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• One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Soul, Disregard, Precious Souls

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• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mind, Looks, Literature

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

  Fanny Burney

  May, Riches, Wealth

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  Xi Jinping

  Years, Chinese, Advancement

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• We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

  Gene Cernan

  Return, Gods Will, Willing

  "Gene Cernan obituary" by Nigel Fountain, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2017.

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• I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

  Simon Callow

  Answers, Come Up, Situation

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• When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Government, Desire, Saws

  Thomas Clarkson (1787). “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions. [One Line from Livy]”, p.52

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• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Microsoft, Versus

  "Oh, What a Tangled Web Silicon Valley Executives Weave". www.wsj.com. March 05, 1998.

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

  LL Cool J

  Lying, Evil, Tongue

  Song: That's a Lie, Album: Radio

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• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

  Samuel Adams

  Business, Feelings, Events

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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• For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.

  Robert Hooke

  Eye, Science, Medicine

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• Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Book, Taken, Science

  Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Independent

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• The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Past, Men, Self

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• War is the enemy of all mankind.

  Edwin Starr

  War, Enemy, Politics

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• The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  Socrates

  Science, Blessing, Way

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