Quotes
Quotes about Mankind
What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.
The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance.
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
Lord of humankind.
This is the porcelain clay of humankind.
Angels listen when she speaks:
She's my delight, all mankind's wonder;
But my jealous heart would break
Should we live one day asunder.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administer'd is best.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!
Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!
Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.
Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd,
Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train,
Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last and hardest conquest of the mind.
For love deceives the best of womankind.
'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind;
Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat
To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote.
Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining,
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining:
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
In men this blunder still you find,--
All think their little set mankind.
