Mankind Quotes

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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

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.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.