Mankind Quotes

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.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.