Mankind Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

War is the enemy of all mankind.

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

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

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.

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.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate