Mankind Quotes

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

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

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.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.