The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. … Otherwise I don’t see how we can survive much later than 2050.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as...

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

War is the plague of mankind; I am and remain in solidarity with eternal peace.

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man’s future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.”Essay...

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire,...

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary… She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind—or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass,...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin —for him did we leave our mothers,deny our sisters, over and over?did we invent him, conjure himover the charring log,nights, late, in the snowbound cabindid we dream or scry his facein the liquid embers,the man-who-would-dare-to-know-us?It was never the rapist:it was the brother, lost,the comrade/twin whose palmwould...

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Men are by nature wanderers…Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.

nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist’s responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the...

When we’re in the story, when we’re part of it, we can’t know the outcome. It’s only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? … History is written by the...

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

The ordinary had been always ”undermined”. But the common man or woman, were always, capable of doing the extraordinary. Wherewith that a calamity in the soul were to purge a moment in time, he or she would determine the fate of mankind.Greater things are in store for her or him. The statues stand for certain...

We are God’s holy people.

Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.

May my life radiates the beauty of God’s glorious grace to mankind.

Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born until the moment he dies, he’s always ready to obey, send him there and he goes, tell him to halt and he stops, tell him to turn back and he retreats, whether in peace or...

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.

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...

Women is a beautiful language every man should learn to speak !

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing...

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If...