Mankind Quotes

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.

Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.

Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.