Mankind Quotes

The proper study of mankind is books.

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

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 think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.