Mankind Quotes - Page 34

• The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

  David Hume

  Fall, Class, Two

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

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• Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

  Theodore Parker

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.221

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• The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Servant

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253

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• There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Institutions

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

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• Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Ideas, Justice

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.57

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• What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Success, Succeed, Habit

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

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• No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

  Theodore Parker

  Long, Hopeful, Despair

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.39

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• Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Expression, Public Opinion

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

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• A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Thinking, Vices, Veils

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• If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

  Pauline Kael

  Hollywood, Use, Tissues

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

  Rae Foley

  Heart, Civilization, Murder

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• It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Views, Perspective, Hopeful

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.14

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• The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Fall, Gaps, Wealth

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• the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Ocean, White, Islands

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• If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Lasts, Needs

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

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• Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

  Coretta Scott King

  Past, Giving, Kind

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• Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Self, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Years, Finals, Study

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

  Francis Atterbury

  Government, Would Be, Wretched

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• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Feminism, Comfort

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Struggle, Luxury

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

  Anita Roddick

  Names, Important, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.

  Mary Webb

  Death, Dream, Dark

  Mary Webb (2016). “Gone To Earth”, p.194, Mary Webb

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• Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

  Orville Dewey

  Hate, Vexation, Neglect

  Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.157

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• The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

  Charles Macklin

  Instinct, Interest, Universal

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