#mankind

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

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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

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We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#hypocrisy #mankind #power #age

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. ↗

— Elihu Root

#condition #forced #his #mankind #original

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

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#contributing #convinced #efforts #i #i am

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. ↗

— Igor Sikorsky

#ahead #even #individual #mankind #more

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#cruelty #mankind #art

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth. He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare. ↗

— Toba Beta

#dream #mankind #reality #beauty