Mankind Quotes

"Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

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

Abdus Salam, Scientist

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

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind"

Woodrow Wilson

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind"

Woodrow Wilson

"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"No man is so great as mankind"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind"

Rufus King, Lawyer

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real"

James Rouse, Businessman

"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error"

Robert Owen, Writer

"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind"

James Rouse, Businessman

"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home"

Shelby Foote, Author

"We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

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

Alphonse de Lamartine, Poet

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

Herbert Read, Poet

"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end"

Karel Capek, Writer

"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind"

David Trimble, Politician

"I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction"

David Eddings, Author

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind"

Juan Antonio Samaranch, Celebrity

"It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process"

Larry Harvey, Celebrity

"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning"

Adam Ferguson, Philosopher

"Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime"

Stanford Moore, Scientist

"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"

Joel Barlow, Poet

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