All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
~By Herman Kahn ~
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
~By Norman Thomas ~
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
~By Robert Hall ~
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
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.
~By Albert Maltz ~
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
~By John Morley ~
I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
~By Caleb Carr ~
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
~By John Locke ~
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~By Voltaire ~
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
~By Umberto Eco ~
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
~By George Crabbe ~
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
~By Immanuel Kant ~
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
~By Rufus King ~
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
~By James T. Walsh ~
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
~By Herbert Read ~
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased.
~By Janez Drnovsek ~
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
~By Ernst Mach ~
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
~By Herbert Read ~
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
~By William Godwin ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
~By Alfred Adler ~
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~By Wellington Mara ~
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.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~By Chief Seattle ~
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
~By Janos Kadar ~
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
~By Linda Blair ~
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.
~By Oswald Mosley ~
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
~By Mencius ~
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
~By Charles Sumner ~
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.
~By Giacomo Meyerbeer ~
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
~By Larry Ellison ~
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
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.
~By Samuel Adams ~
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.
~By Todd Barry ~
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.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
~By Paul Nurse ~
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
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.
~By Robert Owen ~
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
~By Emma Goldman ~
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
~By Li Ka Shing ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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