Mankind Quotes

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

General consultant to mankind.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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