Mankind Quotes

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.

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.

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!

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.