M Quotes
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“Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.”
“Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.”
Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”
“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.”
“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom”
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”
Source: War Or Peace
“Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.”
Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work
“Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.”
“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”
Source: Essential works
“Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.”
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era.”
“Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home”
“Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.”
“Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves”
Source: My Philanthropy
“Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.”
“Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.”
“Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.”
“Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.”
Source: Snow
“Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.”
“Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.”
“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.”
“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
“Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.”
“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”
“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
“Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work”
“Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.”
“Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.”
“Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.”
“Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”
Source: Dante
“Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.”
“Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.”
“Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.”
“Mankiw’s famous quote was ‘People react to incentives, all else is just explanation’. However, poor people are helpless. They do not have or face a willingness to pay choice in helpless scenarios. A literal application of definition of demand would imply that the poor people do not have demand for the essential goods. Their wants are not backed up by purchasing power. Economics does not differentiate between essential and non-essential wants. If a rich person demands golf course in a locality near a big population of homeless people, then, the golf course will be built first if he can afford it. Are poor willing to give fewer dollar votes by choice to buy the essential needs? Is it their conscious and sovereign decision?”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”
“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.”
“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”
Source: Dream of Scipio
“Manly? And what would a kid like you know about manly? Have you even started shaving yet?"
"Only my balls, sir.”
Source: Pup
“Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.”
“Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.”
“Mann
There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
DRAIN energy.”
“Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric.”
“Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.”