Mankind Quotes

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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.

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

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Thought rules mankind.

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.