Mankind Quotes - Page 3
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan. 1787-May 1788.-v. 5.June 1778-Nov. 1789.-v. 6. Dec. 1789-Aug. 1790”
"To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.
Bob Geldof, Paul Vallely (1988). “Is That It?”, Ballantine Books
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.198
Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.
Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work”, p.246
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.215, OUP Oxford
Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.8, Basic Books
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
1711 In The Spectator, no.1,1Mar.