mankind

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allöbut who is capable of that?

—Dudek, Louis

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

—Otway,Thomas

As I know more of mankind I expect less ofthem, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

No government isgoing to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind.I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.

—Maclean,John

In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hithertotobestowonmankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; which†they call Definitions.

—Hobbes,Thomas

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

—Tennyson

   We donot expect peopletobe deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

The rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind, and†only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

—Rockefeller,John D(avison),Jr

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

—Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount

What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combineö This would I tell you, son of mine.

—Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska

Music was invented to deceive and delude mankind.

—Ephorus of Cum×

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

—Swift,Jonathan

   If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.

—Doolittle,James Harold

Durch schlechte K o« chinnenödurch den vollkommenen Mangel anVernunft in der Ku«  che ist die Entwicklung des Menschen am l a« ngsten aufgehalten, am schlimmsten beeintr a« chtigt worden. Through bad female cooksöthrough the entire lack of reason inthekitchenöthe development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

   Photography was conceived as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions ofthe everydayness of lifeöas a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world.

—Steichen, Edward Jean

The Catholics, bad harvests, and the mysterious fluctuations of tradeöthree evils mankind had to fear.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burns

—Burke, Edmund

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

—Adams, Henry Brooks

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

—Whittier,John Greenleaf

Je combattrai pour l'Homme. Contre ses ennemis. Mais aussi contre moi-me"  me. I shall fight for mankind. Against his enemies.But also against myself.

—Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de

L'ami du genre humain n'est point du tout mon fait. I have no use at all for the friend of mankind.

—Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honeyand wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

—Swift,Jonathan

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

—Hobbes,Thomas

   I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

—Boswell,James

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap forward for mankind.

—Armstrong, Neil A(lden)

The worst your malice can, Is but to say the greatest of mankind Has been my slave. The next, but far above him In my esteem, is he whom law calls yours, But whom his love made mine.

—Dryden,John

The effect of trade and commerce with respect to most civilized states is to send out of their countries what the poor, that is, the great mass of mankind, have occasion for, and to bring back, in return, what is consumed almost wholly bya small part of those nations, viz. the rich. Hence it appears that the greater part of manufactures, trade and commerce is highly injurious to the poor as being the chief means of depriving them of the necessaries of life.

—Hall, Charles

If the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world could become socialist.

—Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

—Dryden,John

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved inmankind; and thereforenever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

—Donne,John

   The instinct of mankind warns it against accepting at their face value spiritual demands that cannot satisfy themselves by practical achievements. The road along which the organized workers, like any other class, must climb to power starts from the provision of a more effective economic service than their masters, as their grip upon industry becomes increasingly vacillating and uncertain, are able to supply.

—Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry)

   Was man scheint, Hat jedermann zum Richter; was man ist, hat keine. What we appear to be is subject to the judgement Of all mankind, and what we truly are, of no one.

—Schiller, Friedrich

No sensible person will deny that the works of Nature are in the highest degree simple, necessary and as economical as possible. Therefore machines devised by mankind will doubtlessly likewise attain most success if theyare as far as possible modelled on works of Nature.

—Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

—Mumford, Lewis

   Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God by whom you demand one of another, and the wombs; surely God ever watches over you.

—The Koran

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

—Loos, Adolf

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

—Heller,Joseph

All mankind love a lover. 312

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would nomorebejustifiedinsilencingthatonepersonthanhe, if hehadthepower, would bejustified insilencing mankind.

—Mill,John Stuart

Mankind must put anend towaror war will put anend to mankind.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

—'the Censor'

In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

—Pope, Alexander

Mankind UnderThe Leash.

—Disch,Thomas M(ichael)

O mankind,We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most godfearing of you.God is All-knowing, All-aware.

—The Koran

   They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

—Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible, and is something that no one with a spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obeya Government that is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardlyanywhere in the world understand any other.

—Bagehot,Walter

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind. 234

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra

   Pluto" t  souffrir que mourir, C'est la devise des hommes. It is better to suffer than to die. That is the motto of mankind.

—La Fontaine,Jean de

And, by the incarnation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O,Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Whatever Nature has instore for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignoranceisnever better than knowledge.

—Fermi, Enrico

He¤  las! Les femmes n'ont lu que le roman de l'homme et jamais son histoire. Alas, women have read only the novel of mankind, not the history.

—Gautier,The¤  ophile

Therearetwothingstoaimat inlife: first, toget what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

—Smith, Logan Pearsall

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

—Milton,John

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

—Anonymous

Nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraidöthe little along with the great and powerful. Those are American principles, American policies.We could stand for no others. Theyare also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

DefinitionöScience is systematized positive knowledge, what has been taken as such in different ages and in different places. TheoremöThe acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge are the only human activities which are truly cumulative and progressive.CorollaryöThe history of science is the only history which can illustrate the progress of mankind. In fact, progress has no definite and unquestionable meaning in other fields than the field of science.

—Sarton, George A

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.

—Pope, Alexander

It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingöto a certain degreeöabout some religious expressions†but only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.

—Rabi, Isidor Isaac

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

—Gray,Thomas

One oughttoacknowledgethesignificance for mankind of the simultaneous invention of gunpowder and printer's ink.

—Kraus, Karl

A big step for me, and a small step for mankind. SeeArmstrong 30:78.

—Brodsky, Ioseph

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead, even more than teamwork.

—Sikorsky, Igor Ivan

Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

—Addison,Joseph

The proper study of mankind is books. See Pope 660:16.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Three quarters of mankind,youknow, mind morewhat is represented than how it is done.

—Cotman,John Sell

Religion isthetragedy of mankind† But I do know, from the inside as well as from personal observation, that religion appeals to something deep and irrational and strong within us, and that is what makes it so dangerous.

—Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman)

Music is the universal language of mankind.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

—United Nations Charter

   At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

—Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

—Pope, Alexander