Mankind Quotes - Page 8

The history of mankind is a history of war.

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.