Mankind Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.