Mankind Quotes

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.

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.

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

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

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.