Mankind in a sentence as a noun

They were great days for science, but a shame to mankind that it had to come this far.

This is the pinnacle of our contribution to mankind - building search engines and to-do lists?Where's the lunar base?

The internet is probably the largest threat to authority in the history of mankind.

It's merely an abbreviated use of "mankind," which is an abbreviated use of "humankind.

Before entering it, Elon will turn around and tell us he has done his duty and given us many gifts, and now we must use those gifts to advance mankind.

Those are what a lot of us think of when we think of philosophy attempting to answer questions as old as mankind by devising a technical "solution" to them.

The magic of internet-enabled piracy is that it has allowed us to keep mankind's creations culturally significant long past their expiration date, on an unprecedented scale.

And when people finding their own cures succede, their natural impulse is to share their triumph with all mankind, the world over, not start trade wars over IP that use the pain and death of millions already in - or facing - poverty as leverage.

Surely, even a higher level of design and intelligence would be required to enable the incredibly more complex linguistic abilities of mankind as spiritual children of the Living God.

For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it." Niccolo Machiavelli

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Your generation, and the ones before you, destroyed and defunded parks, they built malls over open land, they made 100% safe unfun playgrounds, they turned America in the the most litigious country in the history of mankind scaring anyone from allowing anyone ever to make a mistake or get slightly hurt, you buy your kids more screens than books, and then at the end of the day you wonder aloud why kids don't play as much?

He gets a few key ideas across:- he doesn't understand torrenting and so is helpless against it- he cares about his viewers more than taking advice about DRM- the video is owned solely by him and not some soulless corporation, and you're directly hurting him by torrenting- you'll destroy his faith in mankind if you torrent- five dollars is nothing compared to all that!All of which combines to make you feel like a huge ******* for even considering pirate bay - in the nicest possible way.

Mankind definitions

noun

all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

See also: world humanity humankind humans