Quotessence
Home / Topics / Mankind Quotes

Mankind Quotes

Browse 4898 quotes about Mankind.

Related topics

MenIfsWorldHumansPeopleMayThinkingHas BeensShouldKnowsWayWarBelieveMindWholeEarthCommonFirstsGovernmentDoeWellsLawLongMeanHeartReasonStatesAgeGivingIndividualNationsArtHumanityEndsMadeNeedsEvilIdeasScienceRaceCountrySpiritChildrenForceWantLibertyFactsTwoReligionYearsKindSeemsVirtueAtheismAnimalCivilizationLittlesOrderSelfStillsFormGivenJusticeNaturalValuesDreamHumankindPoliticalPrinciplesGreaterSufferingUniverseWould BeHuman NatureMoralSoulUseDoneEnemyInterestLooksProgressCausesLastsMightLifeProblemPurposeAmericaLightPeaceBornLyingPersonsReligiousRealActionSaidStudyBookmore

Mankind Quotes

“God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.”

MayMatterGoneMankindComfortPromiseWorshipMassCreatorIndifferenceCharmSavior
Book:William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution
Create image

“If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.”

IfsMenGivingHas BeensSpiritTurnsNumbersQualityMankindPrideComfortMassWorkersProductionsBurdenEnormousTendenciesOur TimeDestroyingQuantityReplacedMultitudesIncompetentSummaryValuelessThoroughnessBrainlessEnormous Quantities
Book:Anarchism and Other Essays
Create image

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

WayMayRealHelpingLightSocialWealthStruggleProgressViolenceMankindFashionPositionMassTechniqueExcellentBrutalCrudeRenounceSocial ProgressSocial SystemsPremium
Author:A. J. Muste
Create image

“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

WorldFirstsFacesOrderMankindProductsDemandAchievementMassHarmonyStructureWesternRoundsComplexityThrownGlobesLaboratoryEliminationWestern WorldFilthProdigious
Book:Tristes Tropiques
Create image

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

WorldEndsSocialSidesTermPrayerPerfectPoorRichFiveMankindEffectsHealthyMoonMassFoundationLaysIslamSignalsEmphasisGatheringMosquesNew MoonMuslim WorldLocalityCrescentSocial Relationships
Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Create image

“One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.”

MenValuesEvilPoliticsStrongEconomyRichMankindHe ManMassCapitalismDestructionMereWorkersInjusticeMoodNoiseConfusionLiberalismOne ManVagueUnemploymentCompelledExploitsMarginsIncompetence
Author:Hilaire Belloc
Create image

“It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.”

IfsFirstsWisdomSeemsPoliticsCommunityNaturalPrinciplesEconomyClearRightsConditionsMankindBenefitsMassFundamentalsPropertyContrarySocialismConfusionLiberalismGoodsMeant To BeDisorderIntroducingRejectedPrivate PropertyAlleviateFundamental PrinciplesNatural Rights
Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
Create image

“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishenev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.”

StillsWarNamesChristChristianityAtheismMankindMassEarsMiseryInspiredPositive AtheismGhostOrthodoxTestamentPersecutionAnguishNew TestamentVibrateOrthodox ChristianityOdessa
Author:John Remsburg
Create image

“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”

FeelsMayDesireMankindKingsMassExtremesLengthBeggarArdent
Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait
Create image

“The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.”

WayStatesFormForceMankindDangerousOughtAuthorityMassMethodVariousConvincedReasoningOrganized
Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)
Create image

“It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.”

MenHandsActingMankindIgnorancePeriodsMassMiseryExpectedEnlightenedUnnecessary
Book:First American from the third London edition
Create image

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

PeopleHas BeensStatesFormReligionReligiousUnitedMoralClassCasesUnited StatesMankindAuthorityMassMajorityInstanceCorporateManifestationExpertsRelyFascismElitesScholarDictatorshipExploitationRulingMonarchyOrthodoxyProletariatHegemonySubjugationMoral Authority
Author:Ed Crane
Create image

“Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.”

MenWorldNeedsWellsSelfArtistForgetSituationMankindHe ManColdMassPainfulContrarySkepticismColleaguesAssertionInvolvingDespisedDespicableOuter WorldsPainful Situations
Book:The Conquest of Happiness
Create image

“In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.”

MenTwoEndsCountryStatesSeemsTodaySufferingPartyWeekMankindMilitaryMassDignityPreparedSakeExcitedNewspapersCivilizedUniformsSymptomsFuryTwo WeeksDeficiencyCompulsoryDisgracefulMilitary ServicePersonal Dignity
Author:Albert Einstein
Create image

“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance”

OrderUnderstandingInterestGreaterSubjectsMankindStupidHigherDemandMassGood ThingsVery GoodCommandGuidanceMediocrityTopicsMediocreAuditors
Author:Alfred de Vigny
Create image

“From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.”

YearsKindBeautifulDesireJesusNamesStruggleMankindMassConvictionProofScriptureIgnorantAll KindsAlliesIntoleranceWorldlyAmerican PoliticsCrusadesInquisitionCitingBiddingErodePower StruggleUnsuspectingWorldly Desires
Author:Dan Brown
Create image