Mankind Quotes

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

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

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

No supernatural can exist for the mankind that does not want to believe it.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

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

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".