Mankind Quotes

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

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.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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.