M Quotes
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“Mankind has created many religions; most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!”
“Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.”
Source: Minority Report
“Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”
“Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there’s nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can’t see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!”
Source: Award Winning Plays -2
“Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke
“Mankind has made gods in their own image, and those gods have proven false.”
Source: The Unremembered Empire
“Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.”
“Mankind,” has no aim, no idea, no plan, any more than the family of butterflies or orchids. “Mankind” is a zoological expression, or an empty word.”
Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
“mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.”
Source: Watchers
“Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!”
“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
“Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains.”
Source: Saturnine
“Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.”
“Mankind has the power to both save the world and destroy it! If a being has the power to create both light and darkness, it means that he has a divine power! Man can be both an angel and a demon! The history of both man and the world depends on which of the human powers of being light and being dark will prevail.”
“Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.”
“Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.”
“Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!”
“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.”
“Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1
“Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.”
“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.”
Source: An essay on the slavery
“Mankind, if unchecked, functions like cancer.”
Source: Inferno
“Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.”
Source: Healology
“Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.”
Source: Mankind in Amnesia
“Mankind, in my experience,’ he said, ‘and I think we can at least accept I have more experience of it than most… Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains. The Age of Strife was a terrible thing, inflicted by man upon man. Those few of us who lived through it, and survived it, no matter what part we played, no matter what crimes we committed, we all looked on it during the last years of its horror and said never again. Never again can we do this to ourselves. Yet, mere centuries later, Terra is about to fall, Terra and the galaxy with it, at the hands of engineered humans turning against their creator. This siege, your war, it is self-inflicted.”
Source: Saturnine
“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.”
“Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap.”
“Mankind invents things to fight about.”
“Mankind is a dream of a shadow.”
“Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
Source: Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd
“Mankind is a handiwork of a mighty Maker.”
“Mankind is a mess. But messes are made to be cleaned up.”
“Mankind is a science that defies definitions.”
“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”
“Mankind is a troupe in the fallibility of evolution and everything at his feet a prop, a false world made real enough to function without attainment or compensation of the genuine.”
Source: The Tedium Lies
“Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.”
“Mankind is an idiot who managed to create chaos in the only peaceful world we know in this chaotic universe!”
“Mankind is an innovation and an experiment to develop the human intellect.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.”
“Mankind is at its best when it is most free.”
Source: On World-Government Or de Monarchia
“Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.”
“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”
“Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.”