The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
Mankind ain't special, Kiddo. It's just you who wanna be so.
Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.
There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
