Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil. . . prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. . . in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.
Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.
I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate
I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?