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Mankind Quotes - Page 16

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2851, e-artnow

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

Euripides (1998). “Euripides: Ten Plays”, p.108, Penguin

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti (1982). “Auto Da Fé”, New York : Continuum

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.188

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.102

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.328, Cambridge University Press

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.255, Princeton University Press

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.449, Cosimo, Inc.