Mankind Quotes

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

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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