Best mankind & superiors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”

Whole Certain Values Humanity Race Quality Generations Mankind Type Fit Prove Survival Average Superiors Proportion Drag Homo Sapiens

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.”

Writing Generations Mankind Poet Superiors Manners Future Generation Legislators Interpreter

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.”

World Ideas Different Age Beautiful Generations Mankind Building Creator Superiors Golden Revolutionary Dedicated Builder This Generation Golden Age Beautiful World

Author:Ben Klassen

“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”

Common Mankind Rate Envy Superiors Pursue Incessant

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.”

Ifs Giving Helping Mankind Bears Equal Weight Envy Scales Superiors Acknowledge Merit Thrown Ridicule Casting Malice

Author:William Hazlitt

“Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.”

Principles Mankind Human Nature Female Males Superiors Inferiors

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.”

Seems Race Virtue Mankind Extraordinary Ridiculous Superiors Sanctity Pretension

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.”

Men Mankind Superiors

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

Facts Opinion Mankind Illusion Superiors Tendencies Curious

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox

“Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.”

Brain Mankind Creatures Findings Concern Blame Superiors Lacking Finding Someone Brain Power

Book:Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.”

Government Form Mankind Prove Democratic Human Rights Superiors Dictatorship Shortcomings Forms Of Government Provocative Transient Authoritarian Government

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

Thinking Art Mankind Conscience Superiors Censorship Inferiors

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.”

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