Pastoral Resources

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.