Mankind Quotes: Reflections on Humanity

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

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind"

William Blackstone, Judge

"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"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"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Our true nationality is mankind"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

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

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it"

Kid Rock, Musician

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty"

John Adams, President

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

Henry George, Economist

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"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"

Moliere, Playwright

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"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"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

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

Sophocles, Author

"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"

Sophocles, Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"All mankind love a lover"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind"

Voltaire, Writer

"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The proper study of mankind is books"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

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