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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems — Douglas Engelbart

Mankind needs new law
to embrace new science. — Toba Beta

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — Alfred North Whitehead

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri

God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him. — Elaine A. Cannon

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. — Homer

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind. — Paul Gauguin

Love yourself and extend the love to others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors. — Taylor Caldwell

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it. — Gautama Buddha

...sick of mankind and their disgusting ways... — Anne Bronte

People kill very important people to change the season in their life. — Allan Wesler

Hug me.
Hug me.
Hug me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality. — Munia Khan

From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No! — Dr. J. Otis Yoder

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. — Thomas More

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity. — Siddharth Katragadda

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. — Samuel Johnson

Oh God, what is it with mankind? Never happy unless it's blowing someone up. — Alex Scarrow

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Smile, ask, listen, provide, thank" then "take time out to have fun & renew yourself" but "always dream up more questions". - Julia Woodman — Jay Woodman

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker

The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time. — Azar Nafisi

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors. — Richard Paul Evans

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

Maybe it's time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can't be explained. — Jennifer Ott

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! — Mignon McLaughlin

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind. — Thomas Carlyle

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind. — Vernon Johnson

There are opinions and then there are opinions ... behold the nature of mankind. — Will Leamon

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide. — Jon Corzine

There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out of that very filth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. — Sophocles

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand. — Charles M. Schulz

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. — Carlos Fuentes

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

They loved each other and believed they loved mankind, they fought each other and believed they fought the world. — John Le Carre

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. — David Hume

Mankind Is Created To Restore God's Glory-His Kingdom To Earth — Sunday Adelaja

Incurable diseases will eventually
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. — Toba Beta

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. — Robert Breault

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light — Lailah Gifty Akita

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore De Balzac

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. — Machado De Assis

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. — Pliny The Elder

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. — George Orwell

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ... — Vernon Lee

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life. — Amit Reddy

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers. — Dane Cook

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. — Sri Chinmoy

we came naked into the world and we will exit naked. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ — Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey

My grandmother said sex was the best gift God ever gave to mankind-I think it is over rated. — Brenda Kay Winters

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind — Neil Armstrong

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind. — Bruce Sterling

General consultant to mankind. — George Bernard Shaw

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis De Sade

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary. — George Saville

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." — William Macneile Dixon

Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind. — Debasish Mridha

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind. — Dion Fortune

Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things. — Morihei Ueshiba

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world. — Auliq Ice

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. — Simon Callow

That which is inherent in man is his virtue. — Mahatma Gandhi

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind. — Georg Simmel

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready. — Arthur Conan Doyle

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. — Phillips Brooks

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery ... is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind. — Pope John Paul II

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real. — James Rouse

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. — Franz Grillparzer

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species. — Arthur Koestler

Mankind's original destiny was to extend God's glorious dominion of love throughout the earth — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. — Gene Siskel

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being ... ... tarnished.
Mankind can no longer survive on its own. — Robin Alleyna

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. — Aminatta Forna

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary — Sunday Adelaja