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 ~
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 ~
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
~By Elihu Root ~
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 ~
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
~By Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ~
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
~By Franz Kafka ~
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
~By Walter Winchell ~
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
~By Gene Siskel ~
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
~By Albert Maltz ~
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 ~
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
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 ~
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.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
~By John Donne ~
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 ~
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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 ~
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
~By Edmund Burke ~
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
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.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~By James Martineau ~
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 ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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 ~
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
~By Cotton Mather ~
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~By Wellington Mara ~
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
~By William Allingham ~
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 ~
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
~By Umberto Eco ~
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
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 ~
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 ~
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
~By Edward Hicks ~
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 ~
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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.
~By Vicente Fox ~
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
~By Fannie Farmer ~
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
~By James Rouse ~
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.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
~By Fanny Burney ~
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
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 ~
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
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 ~
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.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
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 ~
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
~By Jinato Hu ~
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
~By Abdus Salam ~
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
~By William Blackstone ~
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 ~
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
~By Martin Luther ~
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
~By Herbert Read ~
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 world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
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 ~
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
The proper study of mankind is woman.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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