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Mankind Quotes - Page 7

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Nicolas Chamfort
Misanthrope, Mankind, Forty

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jugs, Spirit, Mankind
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.353, e-artnow

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Mike Love
Fighting, Mankind

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Mary Wollstonecraft
Female, Wealth, Mankind
Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

Kedar Joshi
Professionalism, Mankind, Crude

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Karin Fossum
Chance, Given, Mankind

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Mankind, Gluttony, Prerogative

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Irving Langmuir
Needs, Benefits, Mankind

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sickness, Mankind, Defects
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

Elie Wiesel
Believe, Past, Mankind

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Elias Canetti
Mankind, Consolation, Solemn

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aristotle
Mankind, Insatiable, Avarice
Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

Antonio Porchia
Men, Understanding, Mankind
"Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Antonio Porchia
Men, Given, Mankind
"Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

Annette Gordon-Reed
Littles, Mankind, Disingenuous
"Amazon.com Review: Questions for Annette Gordon-Reed". www.amazon.com.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Aleister Crowley
Mistake, Mankind, Thelema
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

Woody Allen
Crime, Capital Punishment, Mankind
"Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Thomas Hobbes
God, Mathematical, Mankind
'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

Ted Nugent
Names, Celebration, Mankind
"Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P1". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

Stanislaw Lem
Crazy, Ideas, Mankind

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Sophocles
Mankind

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Believe, Mankind, Incredulity
Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.19, Knickerbocker Classics

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Nelson Mandela
Causes, Communism, Mankind

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Nan Fairbrother
Evil, Mankind, Satisfied

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

Molly Ivins
Thinking, Characteristics, Mankind

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