Mankind Quotes

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

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.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

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.

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

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.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!