#mankind

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#easily #ever #had #history #information

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #mankind #beauty

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ↗

— James Thomson

#mankind #treason

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#analysis #bother #does #familiar #familiar things

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #behold #curious #each #every

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#connected #fortunes #future #immediately #intensely

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#bad men #believe #doing #good #indulge