#mankind

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. ↗

— W.A.R. Gibb

#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#daughter #examples #four #frustrations #god

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#called #destroy #developers #god #irreplaceable

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#built #children #choice #choices #curse

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

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. ↗

— Stanford Moore

#benefit #concern #dedicating #endeavors #estate

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#history-of-mankind #humanity #knowledge #age

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#east #equally #heritage #mankind #north