#mankind

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ↗

— Robert Orben

#choices #crisis #fight #flee #had

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#deceptively #doubt #endlessly #ever #frustrates

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#human suffering #humanitarian #knowledge #man #mankind

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conduct #conscious #destiny #fully #hinge

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

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

— James Rouse

#could #describe #make #mankind #real

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#countrymen #mankind #world

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#creation #heritage #mankind #scientific #shared

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds