Mankind Quotes

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.