Home / Topics / Mankind Quotes

Mankind Quotes

Browse 4898 quotes about Mankind.

Mankind Quotes

“My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .”

Art Reason Artist Mankind Impulse Idealism Sublime

Author:Richard Schmid

“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”

Men Party Mankind Higher Regard Impulse Arjuna

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?”