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

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 proper study of Mankind is Man.

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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

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

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.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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?

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.

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

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

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

General consultant to mankind.

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.‘

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

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.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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

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.

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

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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.

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.

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

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.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Industry need not wish.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

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.

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

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal 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.

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