Mankind Quotes: Reflections on Humanity

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"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

"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

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Our true nationality is mankind"

H.G. Wells, Author

"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

"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

"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

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

John Adams, President

"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

"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

"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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, 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

"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

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

Voltaire, Writer

"All mankind love a lover"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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

"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"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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"

Ronald Reagan, President

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