The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: mankind life-and-living
Heaven is always there for us; but this life... this life is a gift to us.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: heaven human mankind life-and-living living-life
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom food god work pleasure mankind creation survival eating design hard-work discipline trouble intelligent-design routine
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike NortonTags: politics buddhism peace war capitalism mankind violence genocide communism racism bigotry country buddha socialism kennedy buddha-nature
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.
Karel ČapekTags: war mankind love-thy-enemies
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
David AttenboroughTags: science nature mankind survival population
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: love mankind salvation problems
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HomerTags: wisdom war mankind priority
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
Stanisław LemTags: humanity mankind self-discovery ignorance aliens discovery space-exploration narrow-mindedness closed-mindedness
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...
Stanisław LemTags: fear science life love free-will humanity time despair mankind emotion resignation hopelessness repetition creationism inevitability cycles
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