Mankind Quotes

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.