A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

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.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

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

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

General consultant to mankind.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

All mankind love a lover.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

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.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.