Mankind Quotes

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

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.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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.

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

No man is so great as mankind.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

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.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.