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.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
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.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
~By Josiah Strong ~
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
~By Henry George ~
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
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 ~
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
~By Moliere ~
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
~By Max Muller ~
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
~By L. Frank Baum ~
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The history of mankind is a history of war.
~By Mike Love ~
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 ~
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
~By Joseph Beuys ~
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
~By George Mason ~
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.
~By Theodore White ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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 ~
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
~By Joseph Chilton Pearce ~
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
~By David Wilkerson ~
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.
~By Giacomo Leopardi ~
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 ~
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
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.
~By James Rouse ~
One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
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.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
Music is the universal language of mankind.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~By Wellington Mara ~
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
~By Walter Scott ~
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
~By Thomas Paine ~
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 ~
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.
~By Johann Most ~
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
~By George P. Baker ~
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
~By James G. Frazer ~
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
All mankind love a lover.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
~By Robert Frank ~
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 ~
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~By Mark Twain ~
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
~By Jean Philippe Rameau ~
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 ~
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
~By Richard Eberhart ~
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
~By George Orwell ~
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
~By Andreas Capellanus ~
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
~By Jeff Koons ~
Mankind invents things to fight about.
~By Mike Love ~
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
~By Larry Ellison ~
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
~By Moliere ~
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
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