Mankind Quotes

"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"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"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"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"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"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind"

Thom Yorke, Musician

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

Henry Clay, Statesman

"I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me"

Moliere, Playwright

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind"

George William Curtis, Author

"Ingratitude is treason to mankind"

James Thomson, Musician

"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"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"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world"

Islom Karimov, Statesman

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"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"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind"

George Mason, Statesman

"No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

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

Terrence Howard, Actor

"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"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"

John Adams, President

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth"

John Adams, President

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

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

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

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

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