Mankind Quotes
Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.
Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.
Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.
I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)
And I can’t let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It’s a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin)
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment.
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.
We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.