Mankind Quotes - Page 38

• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Philosophy, Men, Expression

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.18, AK Press

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• The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Character, Simple

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• I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

  Ernst Mayr

  Feels, Species

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Vanity

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• I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

  Ben Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Said

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• I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

  Jasper Fforde

  Errors, Principles, Mischief

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• I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Real, Profound, Effort

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• I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

  James Nesbitt

  Irishmen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  Taken, Men, Years

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• And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.

  Randy Newman

  Children, Crazy, Blessed

  Song: God's Song, Album: Sail Away

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• All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

  Leon Bourgeois

  Dream, Destiny, Men

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• Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Progress, Individual, Should

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• Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

  Richard Matheson

  Our World, Profound, Survival

  Richard Matheson (1999). “The Path: A New Look At Reality”, p.14, Macmillan

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• It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pursuit, Delusion, Exalted

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.38, Routledge

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• Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

  John Berger

  Men, Choices, Priorities

  "The denial of true reflection" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2006.

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• May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

  Otto Wallach

  Beautiful, Country, Strong

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• Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Dwelling Place

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• Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Murder, Adore, Savior

  Taylor Caldwell (2016). “Captains and the Kings: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

  Tom Shadyac

  Years, Law, Needs

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• History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Confused, Long

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• Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

  Stephen Fry

  Law, Historical, Example

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.146, Penguin

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'

  Bryan Magee

  Philosophy, Real, Writing

  "Confessions of a Philosopher". Book by Bryan Magee, 1997.

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• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  Aaron Huey

  War

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