Mankind Quotes - Page 28

• The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

  Roger Scruton

  Simple, Order, Socialist

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A Political Philosophy”, p.208, A&C Black

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• How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

  Benjamin Banneker

  Father, Rights, Criminals

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery, August 19, 1791.

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• Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.

  Ray Comfort

  Sex, Years, Desire

  Ray Comfort (2009). “Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution”, p.163, WND Books

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• If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

  Anthony Daniels

  Believe, Space, People

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• I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun, Sustainer of life. I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race - the natural élite of mankind - to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'.

  Savitri Devi

  Believe, Struggle, Race

  "Pilgrimage". Book by Savitri Devi, p. 327, 1958.

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• We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Giving

  Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, July 1, 1948.

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• Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Moon, Perfect

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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• I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

  Adolf Loos

  Struggle, Years, Ornaments

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• The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Learning, Men, Singing

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Dream, Eye, Men

  "Ideal Family and Ideal World". Reverend Sun Myung Moon's speech at Belvedere (as translated by Sang Kil Han), www.unification.net. June 6, 1982.

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• I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Balance, The End Of The Day

  "TED NUGENT Says PANTERA's Version Of 'Cat Scratch Fever' Had 'No Soul, No Balls". Blabbermouth.net, May 14, 2006.

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• Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

  Jose Saramago

  Age, Wonder, Interest

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• When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, War, Animal

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, September 5, 1940.

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• The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Struggle, Government, Ideas

  "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order". Book by Samuel P. Huntington. Chapter 1: "The New Era in World Politics," § 3: "Other Worlds?," p. 31, 1996.

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• For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Physicians, Four, Poverty

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

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• A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Fighting, Men, Mind

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

  Isocrates

  Peace, Byzantine, Should

  Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

  Archilochus

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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• If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

  Gao Xingjian

  Hero, People, Tragedy

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• Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Errors, Practice, Want

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.196

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• The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Want, Gross, Satisfied

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.69

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• It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

  Eric Shinseki

  Military, Men, America

  "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.

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• If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.

  Louis J. Halle

  Freedom, Thinking, Progress

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• The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

  Ferran Adria

  Cutting, Years, Year End

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