Mankind Quotes

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.

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.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

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.