Mankind Quotes

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Jesus is the ultimate solution to every human problem and the ultimate hope for all mankind.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.