When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
When you set yourself up to be apart from rest of mankind, you're in danger of crashing further than they ever could. That's the trouble with royalty, after all.
Happy those
Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
Taught wisdom to mankind!
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
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.
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.
I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'
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