Mankind Quotes

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Science is the future of mankind.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.