Mankind Quotes

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

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.

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 kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.