M Quotes
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“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.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.”
Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary
“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”
Source: A Book for a Corner
“Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.”
“Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted
“Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.”
“Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
Source: On Liberty
“Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.”
“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
“Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.”
“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.”
Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion
“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)
“Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others so long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.”
Source: The Funeral Oration of Pericles
“Mankind are very odd creatures:
one half censure what they practice,
the other half practice what they censure;
the rest always say and do as they ought.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another”
Source: Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
“Mankind," asserted the Professor with a self-confident glitter of his iron-rimmed spectacles, "does not know what it wants.”
Source: The Secret Agent
“Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best”
Source: Is That It?
“Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Mankind believe in reincarnation, but he doesn't have faith in it, because only a few will be ready to test it; or submit to the experiment.”
“Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.”
“Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.”
Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
“Mankind can no longer see himself in the looking-glass. He looks up at the ancient planets, knows nothing about them in his ignorance and innocence, yet he wants to colonise the wise stars. It’s time to open our eyes and look within the looking-glass.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long”
“Mankind can't always be doing evil. Even in the society of pirates one might find a few sweet hours during which we could fancy their sinister craft a pleasure-boat rocking on the deep.”
“Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas that answers the question of what all of these facsimiles were attempting to replicate, and it is Christmas that illustrates how badly mankind has failed in the attempt.”
“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
Source: The Republic
“Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.”
“Mankind did not set foot on the Moon in 1969, it set foot there much earlier: Mankind has always been there since the first day he saw the Moon, he always wandered there with his dreams!”
“Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.”
“Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.”
“Mankind does not need monasteries to live, but monasteries need mankind to live!”
“Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.”
“Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.”
“Mankind had, it seemed, struggled for as long as they had existed, but now, by the glory of their own noble efforts had finally arrived—to themselves. (By that time God was dead to most of them, so not many were willing to share this triumph with what they saw as an inconsequential archaic entity, that, even if it existed, was flawed and pitiful.)”
“Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.”
Source: The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life
“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.”
“Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.”
Source: Dragonquest
“Mankind has added a new universe to the universe; the universe could never build an airplane, or a computer! Mankind is a genius born out of the universe and added many richness, many originalities to the universe!”
“Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.”
“Mankind has always excelled at collective punishment. Justice, not so much.”
Source: Night Angel Nemesis
“Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”
“Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.”
Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature