Mankind Quotes

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

Man believes and lives.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.