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Quotes about mankind
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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. (Lord Byron )
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. (Lord Byron )
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. (Lord Byron )
The proper study of mankind is woman. (Lord Byron )
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I decline to accept the end of man. (Lord Byron )
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. (Lord Byron )
He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters. (Lord Byron )
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. (Lord Byron )
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Lord Byron )
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. (Lord Byron )
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. (Lord Byron )
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. (Lord Byron )
“Mankind grew strong through eternal struggle, it follows that he shall perish through eternal peace.” (Lord Byron )
“The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr” (Lord Byron )
“Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood” (Lord Byron )
“It is too simple to say `man is basically good' or `man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say `man can become good (probably) and better and better, under a hierarchy of better and better conditions, but also it is very easy, even easie” (Lord Byron )
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. (Lord Byron )
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