Mankind Quotes

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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

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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

No man is so great as mankind.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

General consultant 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.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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

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

Our true nationality is mankind.

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

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

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.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

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.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.