Mankind Quotes

"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind"

George Crabbe, Poet

"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"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

Max Muller, Educator

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

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

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

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind"

William Godwin, Writer

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

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend"

Andreas Capellanus, Writer

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

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

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

Alfred Korzybski, Scientist

"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"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind"

Charles Sumner, Politician

"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"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"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"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind"

Carl Maria von Weber, Composer

"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"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"

Vladimir Putin, President

"Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts"

Plotinus, Philosopher

"Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind"

Mos Def, Musician

"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"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"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"

Slobodan Milosevic, Criminal

"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon"

Terry Prachett, Author

"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

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

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind"

Thomas Reid, Philosopher

"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind"

William Godwin, Writer

"It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other"

James Tobin, Economist

"God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

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