Religulous  - Quotes

 Bill Maher:
The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people - by irrationalists - by those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.
 



Julian Barnes  - Quotes

 Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren 

Tags: cynicism   humanity   mankind     
Bertolt Brecht  - Quotes

 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. 

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O. Henry  - Quotes

 All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 If you seek for supreme predator, go find God.

He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.
 

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City of Ember  - Quotes

 Loris Harrow:
[narrating] On the day the world ended, the fate of mankind was carried in a small metal box. In a secret location, architects, scientists and engineers met and concluded that there was only one hope for our future: to build an underground city designed to keep its citizens protected for generations to come. The box was entrusted to the first mayor, who was to pass it on to her successor. As the years counted down, the box passed from mayor to mayor. None knew what secrets it held, only that it would open when it was needed most. But fate ran another course, and the chain was broken. The box was tucked away and forgotten, and as the city grew old and began to crumble, the box quietly clicked open.
 

A Mighty Wind  - Quotes

 Terry Bohner:
This is not an occult science. This is not one of those crazy systems of divination and astrology. That stuff's hooey, and you've got to have a screw loose to go in for that sort of thing. Our beliefs are fairly commonplace and simple to understand. Humankind is simply materialized color operating on the 49th vibration. You would make that conclusion walking down the street or going to the store.
 

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Justice League: The New Frontier  - Quotes

 
[last lines]
John F. Kennedy:
The pioneers gave up their safety, their comfort, and sometimes their lives to build our new west. They were determined to make the new world strong and free - an example to the world. Some would say that those struggles are all over. That all the horizons have been explored. That all the battles have been won. That there is no longer an American frontier. And we stand today on the edge of a new frontier. The frontier of unknown opportunities and perils. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science. Unsolved problems of peace and war. Unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice. I'm asking each of you to be pioneers towards that New Frontier. My call is to the young in heart, regardless of age. Can we carry through in an age where we will witness not only new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction, but also a race for mastery of the sky and the rain, the ocean and the tides, the far side of space, and the inside of men's minds? All mankind waits upon out decision. A whole world waits to see what we shall do. And we cannot fail that trust, and we cannot fail to try.
 

In Bruges  - Quotes

 Ken:
[looking at a surreal Bosch painting] It's Judgment Day, you know?
Ray:
No. What's that then?
Ken:
Well, it's, you know, the final day on Earth, when mankind will be judged for the crimes they've committed and that.
Ray:
Oh. And see who gets into heaven and who gets into hell and all that.
Ken:
Yeah. And what's the other place?
Ray:
Purgatory.
Ken:
Purgatory... what's that?
Ray:
Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham. [pause]
Ray:
Do you believe in all that stuff, Ken?
Ken:
About Tottenham?
 

Poltergeist: The Legacy  - Quotes

 opening credits narrator:
Since the beginning of time, mankind has existed between the world of light and the world of darkness. This journal chronicles the work of our secret society known as the Legacy, created to protect the innocent from those creatures that inhabit the shadows and the night.
 

Blues Brothers 2000  - Quotes

 Elwood Blues:
[addressing the rest if the band] You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss.
Donald "Duck" Dunn:
Who is Robert K. Weiss? [the rest of the band shrug]
Elwood Blues:
Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will whither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect. [he walks off, followed by Buster, Mack and then the rest of the band]
 

Voltaire  - Quotes

 It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 

Tags: ethics   governments   humor   irony   killing   mankind   morality   murder   nationalism   nations     
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation  - Quotes

 Shao Kahn:
The Earth was created in six days; so too shall it be destroyed; and on the seventh day, mankind will rest... in peace!
 

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Epictetus  - Quotes

 Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems 

Tags: anxiety   mankind     
Equilibrium  - Quotes

 
[first lines]
DuPont:
In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.
 

Sigmund Freud  - Quotes

 In the depths of my heart I can 

Tags: cynicism   humanity   mankind     
Waking Life  - Quotes

 Alex Jones:
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
 

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Equilibrium  - Quotes

 Father:
Mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war than he ever did in pursuit of peace.
 

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Susan Sontag  - Quotes

 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. 

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Dragonheart: A New Beginning  - Quotes

 Lord Osric of Crossley:
One solitary dragon escaped Bowen's wrath and fled to the East, a dragon who learned that the pledge to serve mankind was nothing more than a *cruel joke*! Oh, oh, he sought his revenge! But, in the end, his heart too was... plundered. And he was cursed, to live out his life in the form he hated most... as a man.
 

Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 Humans see what they want to see. 

Tags: humanity   humans   mankind     
Constantine  - Quotes

 Gabriel:
I'm simply seeking to inspire mankind to all that is intended.
John Constantine:
By handing Earth over to the son of the Devil? Help me here.
 

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Alfred de Vigny  - Quotes

 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 

Tags: artists   creativity   mankind     
Clerks II  - Quotes

 Randal Graves:
The Transformers were a total slight against God. In as much as God sent his only begotten son to die on the cross to redeem mankind and all we did to pay him back was make terrible fucking cartoons, like the Transformers.
 

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles  - Quotes

 Sarah Connor:
[Season 1 opening Intro] In the future my son will lead mankind in a war against Skynet, a computer system programmed to destroy the world. It has sent machines back through time to kill him, one to protect him. Today we fight to stop Skynet from ever being created. To change our future. To change his fate. The war to save mankind begins now!
 

Alfred de Musset  - Quotes

 Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! 

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The Mummy Returns  - Quotes

 Ardeth Bay:
Whomever can kill the Scorpion King can send his army back to the underworld, or use it to destroy mankind and rule the Earth!
Rick:
So that's why they dug up Imhotep, 'cause he's the only guy tough enough to take out the Scorpion King.
Ardeth Bay:
That is their plan.
 

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Woody Allen  - Quotes

 God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. 

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Robert Anton Wilson  - Quotes

 Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there 

Tags: mankind   stupidity     
Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 It's useless to lecture a human. 

Tags: humanity   humans   mankind     
W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. 

Tags: geology   mankind     
Early Edition  - Quotes

 Chuck:
The greatest boon to mankind since nontaxable income, and who does it come to? A guy who plays the lottery and doesn't cheat.
 

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The Addiction  - Quotes

 Peina:
Mankind has striven to exist beyond good and evil, from the beginning. And you know what they found? Me.
 

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Alfred de Vigny  - Quotes

 I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance 

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Leo Tolstoy  - Quotes

 There are such repulsive faces in the world. 

Tags: humanity   mankind     
Abby Smith  - Quotes

 Art  

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There 

Tags: history   humanity   life   mankind     
Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest  

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Charles M. Schulz  - Quotes

 I love mankind, it's people I can't stand. 

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Fyodor Dostoevsky  - Quotes

 The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. 

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Thomas More  - Quotes

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

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Mark Helprin  - Quotes

 Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves. 

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Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 The Fourteenth Book is entitled,  

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Sherman Alexie  - Quotes

 Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.



 

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Buckminster Fuller  - Quotes

 Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing 

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Bruce Sterling  - Quotes

 (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute 

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Alfred de Vigny  - Quotes

 We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires 

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Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. 

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Alfred de Vigny  - Quotes

 Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so full of wealth and glory. Can 

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Henry Miller  - Quotes

 For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if only for one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured--disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui--in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off. 

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Akira Kurosawa  - Quotes

 People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water. 

Tags: humanity   humankind   invention   nature   science   technology   water     
Paul Goodman  - Quotes

 Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin. 

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Machado de Assis  - Quotes

 Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. 

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George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. 

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Remy de Gourmont  - Quotes

 Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise. 

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George Bernard Shaw  - Quotes

 Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. 

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Andrew Arulanandam  - Quotes

 The 90 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. 

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