Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
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