Mankind Quotes

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

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

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

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

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.