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

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

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.‘

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Industry need not wish.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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

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.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

All mankind love a lover.

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.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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