To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
The greatest part of mankind. . . are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.