Mankind Quotes

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these fo

~ Rachel Carson

Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.

~ Toba Beta

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary

~ Sunday Adelaja

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.

~ Gabriella Jording

So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!

~ Deyth Banger

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

~ R. N. Prasher

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no other name that mankind can be saved accept in the name of Jesus Christ, the saviour of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People speak sometimes about the bestial cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers, trees, animals, and all the works of Nature as they pass before us in time and space. What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe; and grains of enormously increased productiveness, whose fat kernels are filled with more and better nourishment, a veritable storehouse of perfect food—new food for all the world's untold millions for all time to come.

~ Luther Burbank

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

~ Charles Manson

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

~ Stephen King

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

~ Richard Adams

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

~ Justus Von Liebig

It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

~ Adam Smith

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

~ Robert Aickman

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

~ Jeannette Walls

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

~ Primo Levi

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

~ Roman Payne

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

~ John Quincy Adams

No man is an island, entire of itself.

~ John Donne

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

~ Molière

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.

~ Gustave Flaubert

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

~ Richard Paul Evans

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

~ William Shakespeare

What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.

~ Blaise Pascal

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

~ Sharon Shinn

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

~ Alfred De Vigny

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

~ Sherman Alexie

God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

~ D.b.c. Pierre

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

~ Jasper Fforde

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

~ W.h. Auden

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

~ Henry David Thoreau