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

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

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

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

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.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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

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 fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

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.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

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

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 not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

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

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

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

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‚Am I really that oppressed?‘ but ‚Am I really that boring?‘

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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

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.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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.

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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

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

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

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.

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

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

All mankind love a lover.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

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

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

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

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

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.‘

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.