mankind quotes

• Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. (Jonathan Swift) [mankind/more/service/politicians]
• More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Woody Allen) [more/time/mankind/crossroads]
• No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Samuel Johnson) [government/power/mankind/willpower]
• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. (Ronald Reagan) [weapons/mankind//give]
• He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters. (Daniel Defoe) [find/life/mankind]
• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind. (Franklin Roosevelt) [life/america/mankind]
• Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [music/language/mankind]
• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/knowledge/mankind/mankind]
• The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance. (William Shakespeare) [mankind/ignorance]
• 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. (Vladimir Putin) [government/mankind]
• Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [life/mankind]
• It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. (Mikhail Gorbachev) [naive/think/mankind/past]
• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? (John Adams) [service/mankind]
• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. (Joseph Addison) [ignorance/mankind]
• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. (Joseph Addison) [books/genius/mankind/generation]
• There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. (Alfred Adler) [right/love/mankind]
• More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Woody Allen) [more/time/mankind/crossroads]
• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ( Aristotle) [art/mankind/education/youth]
• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. ( Aristotle) [respect/mankind]
• Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. (Francis Bacon) [love/mankind/love/love]
• All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. (Henry Ward Beecher) [ambitions/mankind]
• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. ( Napoleon I) [collection/more/mankind]
• For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. (Bertolt Brecht) [facts/mankind/acts]
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other (Edmund Burke) [school/mankind/willpower]
• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. (Thomas Carlyle) [men/mankind]
• 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. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [morals/mankind/etiquette/etiquette]
• Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. (Marcus Cicero) [thing/mankind]
• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. (Marcus Cicero) [land/mankind]
• Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ( Confucius) [mankind/animals/people]
• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka. (Aleister Crowley) [mankind/integrity]
• To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them. (Aleister Crowley) [eyes/god/mankind/find]

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