Mankind Quotes

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

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

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself and all mankind.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom 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.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?