Mankind Quotes - Page 9

• Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Civilization, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) closing words

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• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Cures

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Characteristics, Surroundings

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

  Elias Canetti

  Draws

  Elias Canetti (1982). “Auto Da Fé”, New York : Continuum

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• As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Character, Excellence

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• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

  Charles James

  People, Wells, Nationality

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• On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal... but forget so many important parts of me?

  Mick Foley

  Bad Day, Wwe, Important

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• Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Rocks, Wwe, Competition

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• Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ancient, Infancy, All Things

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Long, Effort

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.201

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• A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

  John Jay Chapman

  Vision, Doe, Armchairs

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Greek studies”

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• There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

  Lucretius

  Doe, Admire, Marvelous

  Lucretius (2007). “The Nature of Things”, p.96, Penguin UK

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• Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Believe, Character, Past

  Victor Davis Hanson (2010). “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

  Bessie Head

  Stars, Writing, Building

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

  Denis Diderot

  Wall, Views, Religion

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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Science, Technology

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.26, Knopf

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• I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Politician, Whole

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.66, A&C Black

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• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Poet, Great Poet

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• What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

  Elie Wiesel

  Fall, Men, Allies

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.97, Schocken

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• ... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Science, Suffering Of Others, Effort

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Natural Talent, Purpose, Want

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