Mankind Quotes

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

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.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.