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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Our true nationality is mankind.
Author:
H. Wells
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Mankind advances only through struggle.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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General consultant to mankind.
Author:
George Shaw
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
Author:
James Rouse
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I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
Author:
Kid Rock
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Author:
Plato
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One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Monson
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
Author:
George Mason
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Author:
Vachel Lindsay
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Author:
Alfred Korzybski
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
Author:
Edward Hicks
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
Author:
George Gissing
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
Author:
Bob Geldof
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Author:
Larry Ellison
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
Author:
Thomas Clarkson
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Author:
Fanny Burney
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Author:
Franz Boas
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Author:
Amos Alcott
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Author:
John Adams
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
Author:
Henry Adams
