mankind quotes

• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Bertrand Russell) [boredom/problem/mankind/fear]
• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. (Bertrand Russell) [thing/willpower/mankind/cooperation]
• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. (Bertrand Russell) [mankind/being]
• Mankind is made great or little by its own will. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [mankind/willpower]
• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [character/form/mankind/take]
• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [weakness/mankind/lawyer/stupidity]
• A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. ( Seneca) [mankind]
• Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. (Adam Smith) [mankind/animals]
• The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. (Sydney Smith) [mankind/intellect/human]
• I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [mountain/mankind]
• And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (Jonathan Swift) [opinion/mankind/more/service]
• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. (Jonathan Swift) [death/evil/mankind]
• Ingratitude is treason to mankind. (James Thomson) [treachery/mankind]
• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. (Henry David Thoreau) [life/mankind]
• A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. (Henry David Thoreau) [mankind]
• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. (George Washington) [mankind/government]
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead) [mankind/mind/analysis]
• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. (Alfred North Whitehead) [mankind]
• If mankind recognizes that war is impossible...that all national rivalries are foolish...if they get together any kind of an extension of detente... then we may pull out of it all the better for it. (Tori Amos) [mankind/war]
• My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind. (Diane Cilento) [mother/age/mankind]
• Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that’s all. (Bob Marley) [thing/mankind]
• “The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [mankind/willpower/matter/people]
• I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. (Kid Rock) [think/mankind]
• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. (George Gordon Byron) [mankind/look]
• Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. (Thomas Clarkson) [mankind]
• When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. (Thomas Clarkson) [mankind/government/desire]
• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. (Max Beerbohm) [mankind/guests]

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