#mankind

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#chief danger #danger #extraordinary #fiend #man

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#devised #disposal #force #greatest #ingenuity

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#desperate #mankind #most #often

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #better #better future #blessed #death

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#any #called #christianity #deeply #geographic

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#mankind #sacrifice

What is a hero without love for mankind. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#love #mankind #without