M Quotes
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“Mankind may boast its delicious dainties, but what can best the pleasure of mountain monkeys.”
Source: Journey to the West
“Mankind
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don’t want to mend
their own ways, but each other's.”
“Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.”
“Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.”
“Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.”
“Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.”
“Mankind must live in harmony with one another.”
“Mankind must plead for the mercy of the Maker.”
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
“Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.
[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]”
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
“Mankind must treat each other with mercy.”
“Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.”
“Mankind must worship God to attain righteousness and the spiritual status necessary to enter paradise. This means human beings have to comprehend that worship is as indispensable as eating and breathing — and not a favour they are doing for God.”
Source: The Best Way to Live and Die
“Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“Mankind needs more empathy.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Mankind needs new law
to embrace new science.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.”
“Mankind Needs To Fit Into God’s Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose”
“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.”
“Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.”
“Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.”
“Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.”
“Mankind’s genius is ‘genius’ in name only despite what we might name it.”
“Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.”
“Mankind’s happy end and people’s happy endings are inevitable.”
Source: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - a Short Essay
“Mankind’s inability to move himself toward the peace he desires evidences the greed within us that forsakes the God above us who can deliver that peace to everything around us.”
“Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.”
“Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth”
“Mankind seeks to destroy that which challenges its supremacy. Therefore, if God doesn’t exist and Biblical principles are irrelevant, why does mankind spend so much time seeking to destroy both?”
“Mankind seeks to hold onto that which much perish after its time is done.”
Source: The Little Light
“Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.”
“Mankind strives with almost infinite energy to build something that will not last infinitely! First make yourself infinite, then try to build something that can last infinitely!”
“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”
Source: The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
“Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.”
Source: Christian Science Sentinel
“Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live”
“Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.”
Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“Mankind was made by a mighty Maker.”
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was mu business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
Source: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.”
“Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.”
“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. ("The Principles of an American Whig"-1777)”
“Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.”
“Mankind will become the new Ken & Barbie in the near future.”